invade disney

a good article about the tyranny of copyright in the nytimes(free registration). for those of you who don't know, i'm of the belief that copyrights have gotten too long. it used to be the case that something went from copyrighted to public domain in a quick time, now things created when you are born will not become public domain until you are long dead. who benefits from that except corporations? it almost makes me want to invade companies who are hording copyrights(like disney) and liberate the art contained inside the walls of retroactively extended copyright.

think this is only about art? it turns out that scientific journals own the copyright to all the papers they publish, and are currently charging scientists to view them. now this seemed reasonable when they were providing a service(distributing the information), but now that service is unneeded, but they still maintain control of the research. remember that this is information that they didn't pay to obtain, you paid for most of it through taxes which support the public universities where this research was done, but they are the ones profitting from it(the scientists aren't even making money off of this, so they don't even have the artists share argument that the riaa uses).

and now the departing weapons inspector in iraq says(nytimes free reg) that the weapons were gone before the war. what a shock.

and just cuz it came on as i was typing this, here's some body count lyrics:

I got my twelve gauge sawed off.
I got my headlights turned off.
I'm 'bout to bust some shots off.
I'm 'bout to dust some cops off.

I'm a COP KILLER, better you than me.
COP KILLER, fuck police brutality!

(ok, so it's not copyright, but it is censorship)

but tonight we get even.

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