Re: [DMCA-Activists] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] (DC 7/17)

[Ruben I Safir]

On 2002.10.29 17:01 Ruben I Safir wrote:
> 
> 
> the DMCA affects education because it makes you ownerless from information,
> and impeeds your ability to accumalate data.
> 
> 
> The clearest example of this was with NYU Dental School.  They forced
> all their students to buy all their textbooks at the Dental School
> on a DVD, and at the end of the semester, the books TURNED THEMSELVES OFF,
> unless you purchases a subscription.  Printing, and sharing the disk was 
> considered criminal, making it impossible to SHARE RESEARCH or sources.
> 
> 
> That's in in a nut shell.
> 
> In order to educate and to become educated, absolute ownership of the
> source materials and research facilities has to remain with the individual,
> or you can not practice any real knowledge.
> 
> See http://fairuse.nylxs.com
> 
> New Yorkers for Fair Use.
> 
> Also see NYLXS http://www.nylxs.com for more information.
> 
> I'm the founder and leader of both groups, auther of the NY Fair Use web site
> and have several articles published on these issues, including a regular 
> column in the NYLXS
> Quartly Journal.  We've also funded all NY Fair Use activities.
> 
> Indeed, DRM is Theft, and we are the stake holders.
> 
> See my article on "Who owns the Music"  It will be the main piece of 
> literature
> to target the 18-24 year old crowd in school districts, and to counter the 
> mis-information being distributed by the RIAA, and the MPAA as we witnessed 
> in Congressional hearings.
> 
> BTW - there is/was no 10/21/ outreach called by NY Fair Use.
> 
> NY Fair Use is now organizing an assualt on the Student Constitutency
> based on the expereince of the organization in the last month in talking 
> directly
> with members of the IP subcommittee in the house.  We will be announcing our
> next action in about a week.  It will be desinged to put specific pressure on 
> members
> of this key committee in the only way they understand.
> 
> I'm really not certain why this other group has decided to waste preciously 
> scare 
> resources as they have, but, Oh Well...
> 
> The DMCA and the issues of Information Ownership affects nearly ever aspect 
> of society,
> and their are natural forming constitutencies which can me mobilized for 
> political
> action.  The main thrust of NY Fair Use has been to spounsor a Fair Use Bill 
> which
> clearly grounds the Fair Use legal doctrine into the 4, and 5 ammendments of 
> the
> Constitution.
> 
> Ruben
> 
> 
> On 2002.10.22 17:27 denise wrote:
> > I am currently doing my graduate thesis on the DMCA-I have heard a lot of
> > things menitoned about the fair-use policy. I was wondering if anyone could
> > explain it further to me. I have read and read up on the issue, but I can't
> > grasp that concept for some reason. (And why is it involved with education?)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Denise
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Seth Johnson" <address@hidden>
> > To: <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>;
> > <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>;
> > <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:38 AM
> > Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] (DC 7/17) NY Arena Outreach, 10/21/02
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > This past Saturday, New Yorkers for Fair Use did street
> > > outreach on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn, recruiting volunteers to
> > > help build the strength of the information freedom struggle.
> > >
> > > Three NY Fair Users (Brett Wynkoop, Seth Johnson and one
> > > volunteer) approached 135 passers-by with a pitch about the
> > > FCC planning to outlaw home recording for digital TV by
> > > 2006.  Out of those approaches, 32 people volunteered for
> > > various roles, most commonly Press Outreach Campaigners.
> > > That gives us a parity rate of 23.7%.
> > >
> > > Combined with results from previous Street Outreach tactics,
> > > we have added 50 volunteers to our database.
> > >
> > > We are planning a Press Outreach this Wednesday evening
> > > using a blurb on the FCC Broadcast Flag.  That pitch can be
> > > viewed at this URI:
> > >
> > > http://nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag.xhtml
> > >
> > >
> > > Seth Johnson
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------
> > > http://www.anti-dmca.org
> > > ------------------------
> > >
> > > DMCA_Discuss mailing list
> > > address@hidden
> > > http://lists.microshaft.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca_discuss
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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