A Big Win For The Good Guys

[filkertom]

U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Creative Commons and similar licensing. Basically, "if a creative work is being used outside the terms of the license, the person modifying or republishing the work is guilty of copyright infringement for failing to attribute the original work."

Comments

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

What? Judges making law without consulting the President? Sack the lot of them instantly! It's perfectly clear from the Bible that only God has the power to create anything, and therefore no copyright can exist unless it's verified by the Church authorities! And furthermore--

*is removed, frothing*

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

*quipps* "You sound worse than my ex-wife!"

*throws sushi rolls to plug frothing smallship1*

[ketira.livejournal.com]

No, no, no; that's a waste of raw fish. (Don't mind me; I'm still working up to trying that dish.) Use something really awful like spinach with brussel sprouts instead.

After all, he may actually like sushi....

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Strange days. I'll see your copyright sanity and raise you a fallible Bible (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BAQT129NMG.DTL&tsp=1).

[devospice.livejournal.com]

You can almost FEEL the pendulum swinging in the other direction in this country.

Took long enough, but it's slow but surely starting it's move back in the other direction.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

The trick is never to let it stop too long at either end.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

smallship1 FTW! :-)

[connor-campbell.livejournal.com]

i'm afraid i have to admit a big bunch of heapin' ignorance here. me no speakee legaleese! does this have any effect on us humble consumers? (Cap'n Jack: "pirate!" me:*nudge* "shut up!") consumers. humble CONSUMERS. no pirates here. *cough, cough* i'm an almost innocent bystander!

seriously, though, translation please?

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

if the writer/painter/etc. granted the work under CC license, no one can later grab it, slap another kind of license on it, and start suing people for infringement.Equally, if (non-CC)derivative work was precluded under that license then anybody doing something like that with the material *is* infringing on copyright and open to legal action on these grounds i.e. no corporation can commission a derivative work and make it a regular copyright unless it was allowed in the original CC copyright.

[connor-campbell.livejournal.com]

like the big mess back in the early 90s when a lot of comic book artists and writers went independent and jumped ship from the big companies, because the big companies would snag the rights, then do things with the characters that the creators/artists/writers didn't like? precluded = included, yes? or like waiting for something to hit public ...oh, what do you call it when something's copyright runs out? it becomes open season and then they try to nab it for themselves? am i close?

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

That this went to the Federal Circuit was probably a major factor; its patent jurisdiction means that it groks intellectual property concepts. A generalist court might have come down the other way.

Thank you!

[ketira.livejournal.com]

I made sure my brother (http://www.waynewirs.com/") got the link; he uses that on HIS website. (Just go there; you'll see why.)

You feeling better? Howard Tayler (Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com)) put out the call to donate to your fund. I made sure everyone there knew about this little corner of yours. ;)