Maybe you have been sitting on the sideline with respect to some of the intellectual property issues that I raise here from time to time. Perhaps deep down, you suspect that all those who push for copyright reform are a bunch of card carrying communists. I mean really, just look at their T-shirts for pity’s sake!
But the reality is that the threat to basic freedoms are real: witness this example, where a radio host was fired for airing material from C-SPAN which is in the public domain.
I’ve actually only just discovered that you actually posted my prior comment about communism and copyright, with an editorial disclaimer. Before now, I thought you had censored it! I’ll follow up to it now, for the record.
I’m actually sympathetic to socialism, if not communism, but the copyleft thing still strikes me as sending all the wrong (flaky, faddish, radical) signals. (Last time, I forgot to mention Richard Stallman. 🙂
Back on topic, the C-SPAN guy looks like he has a strong case against WRPI, but even so this is definitely a scary precedent.