5/03/2004

In case you're wondering about copyrights Big Media has finally warned the mostly blogging internet about quoting huge segments of their protected material. I've always respected writers and only quote a sentence or so to get you to go read the stuff, but many bloggers take basically the entire article; no surprise that these bloggers also support stealing music for free over the web and robbing artists. Should companies go after somebody for a copyright violation the fines are huge: $50 per violation. Claudia Rosett is just the most recent person violated. So now I notice that huge portions of blogged material is being stolen (quoted) because we allegedly do NOT have copyright protection. WRONG, but enforcing it is tough right now.

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