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Jan 23, 2013

Wednesday’s Links form an interesting pair

dispoUsula K LeGuin raises concerns over moves in Britain to allow corporations to snap up “orphaned books” with little or no effort on the behalf of said corporations to locate the owners of the copyright. Read Kidnapped and be concerned.

 

EXISTENCE-coverDavid Brin writing at Locus Online educates us on The Idiot Plot in  David Brin: Our Favorite Cliché — A World Filled With Idiots…, or,Why Films and Novels Routinely Depict Society and its Citizens as Fools. He takes a good hard look at the tendency of movies to highlight the lone individual who is the only one that can see the evil government/corporation conspiracy and to cast the citizens as clueless idiots.

 

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raventracks 46p · 633 weeks ago

I have read Kidnapped, which is indeed scary - it's bad enough having to put up with book piracy without some government making it legal! I will check out the other one, thanks for that. I enjoyed David Brin's books years ago and follow him on Twitter.
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SB Wright 110p · 633 weeks ago

It does seem that big companies only worry about upholding the spirit of copyright when its in their interest. I was thinking how the musician who did the music for the copyright add at the start of every dvd was ripped off by the company that then distributed that add globally.
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