[p2p-research] ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture

[Alex Rollin]

How can we aid the reverse with education?

We have a new category http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Licensing

Do we have what is needed there?


On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> On 7/6/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> when the enemy is taking you seriously, you know you're doing  
>> something
>> right ...
>>
>> thanks for the update!!
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Lazaro Vigoa <q93149 at hotmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello P2P!
>>>
>>> The free culture movement is abuzz today over news that ASCAP has
>> requested their members to fight organizations like Creative  
>> Commons, Public
>> Knowledge
>>>
>
> This is excellent news.  As it is, the way the press reports on such
> issues, there's no indication of a "fight" of any sort.  The
> mainstream press simply reports the position of groups like the MPAA
> and RIAA, along with some quip from Joe Biden, and gives the
> impression that there's no debate -- the "other side" is just a bunch
> of freeloading pimply-faced teenagers who don't even have a coherent
> position other than wanting to get free stuff.
>
> If they want to publicize this as a fight, it will mean the press will
> have to report for the first time that there *is* a fight, with some
> idea of what it's about.  Even reporting that there *are* such
> organizations as EFF that have a coherent position of some kind
> challenging the maximalist copyright position will result in a glitch
> in the Matrix for many people.
>
> Just goes to show, once again, that the Copyright Nazis' stormtroopers
> are stoopid.
>
> This ought to work out for them, on the PR front, about as well as
> suing thousands of teenagers for copyright infringement.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Carson
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