<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think current copyright legislation is kinda cool.<div>It provides protection to the individual.</div><div><br></div><div>Old copyright legislation in the US sucked bad,</div><div>I think it is partly the reason the media industry could get the amount of power it had; because it could circumvent actually paying the creators.</div><div><br></div><div>Possibilities for nastyness, court games and powerpolitics are IMHO now to be found outside of copyright, elsewhere, I guess, like the Millenium Act in the US, and the proposed saving of all surfing data within the European Union.</div><div><br></div><div>But I do not see how copyright in itself is hampering progress; I think it is the lack of knowledge of the general public that is; once you start to see copyright as a right attributed to your self, it becomes another way of empowerment.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Op 31 mrt 2009, om 10:30 heeft chovynz het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Apologies... It was based on British Copyright.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:20 PM, chovynz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chovynz@gmail.com">chovynz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sigh.<br><br>I was hoping to avoid reading the Berne Convention. However. I guess I must if I want to understand it clearer. :D<br><br>I wonder what NZ copyright is based on, since it was loosely based on US copyright laws. I wonder if we've kept up to date.<br> <br>Seriously...current copyright legislation sucks. It doesn't do what it's intentions are. Or rather, it does it too well to the detriment of creativity and progress, at the cost of greed and selfshiness.<br><br> This has been another volatile particle emission from chovynz. Proudly brought to you by way of the air waves. Copyright me, 2009. All attribution to me shall not be held in court. I'll deny all knowledge of quoted emissions. No emissions tax shall be held liable. Please don't sue my dog either. <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers<br>Chovynz<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>