[DMCA-Activists] Leaflets

[Edward Bishop]

I would like to do more to raise public awareness of the
media giants war against public interests wrt copyrights.
Has anyone done any leafleting? How about carrying 
signs and banners outside of Disneyland?

-Edward

PS: Ideas for leaflet, comments welcome:

*) Pirates
Media giants are portraying as "pirates" those who copy and exchange
copyrighted materials. History may well portray them differently.
In 1773, the British government granted special tax status to
the East India Company, at the expense of colonial merchants.
The revolt that followed, the Boston Tea Party, was condemmed
by the British government, but today those responsible are widely
regarded as heroes.

*) Copyright
Lobbied by the media giants, the U.S. Congress has extended Copyright
beyond what is constitutional. The pro-big-business Supreme Court has
upheld the extension. 

Here are the words of Supreme Court Justice Breyer, dissenting:

    The U.S. Constitution's Copyright Clause grants Congress
    the power to "promote the Progress of Science ... by se-
    curing for LIMITED TIMES TO AUTHORS ... the exclusive Right
    to their respective Writings.." 

    The statute before us, the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term 
    Extension Act, extends the term of most existing copyrights 
    to 95 years and that of many new copyrights to 70 years after 
    the author's death. The economic effect of this 20-year extension,
    the longest blanket extension since the Nation's founding, is 
    to make the copyright term not limited, but virtually perpetual.  
    Its primary legal effect is to grant the extended term not to
    authors, but to their heirs, estates, or corporate successors.  
    And most importantly, its practical effect is not to
    promote, but to inhibit, the progress of Science, by
    which word the Framers meant learning or knowledge...

*) Fair use
Media is being created that cannot be copied, even for the purpose of backup.
DVD's purchased in one country cannot be played in another.
"Defective" CDs are being sold that will not play on a computer CD player.


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