Re: Maine moves to cut greenhouse gases

From: Psalm 110 (Melchizedek_at_USA.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: 21 Jun 2004 00:49:47 -0700

"Brandon Berg" <bberg@cesmail.net> wrote in message news:<jFoBc.80088$eu.77124@attbi_s02>...
> Psalm 110 wrote:
> > http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040619greenhouse.shtml
> >
> > A small fraction of a daily large volume of publication, may
> > constitute fair use even when the entirety of a small fraction has
> > been copied intact, so has declared United States Federal Courts. The
> > tests of exceeding fair use include monetary value obtained by the
> > copier (none here), plus monetary value lost to the copyright holder's
> > ability to market this material to the same audience (none here), plus
> > totality of copyrighted colection from which the fair use is exerpted
> > (miniscule portion of daily volume published), plus clear scientific
> > or educational value (large value as specimen of pursuasion type).
>
> Nonsense. The work is the article, not the daily output of the AP, and
> copying an entire article intact is every bit as much a copyright violation
> as copying a poem from a book. Furthermore, the AP charges for access to
> their archives, and the site to which you linked has ads, so they'd probably
> have a good case for monetary damages, as well. Finally, since you haven't
> actually commented on the article, your claims of educational purposes are
> questionable. It's unlikely that they'd come after you anyway, but posting
> this "fair use" nonsense certainly doesn't help, and it may even give the
> copyright holders cause to single you out as an example.

It's my country, and the laws flow from ME, the people. Nobody was
given a free ride to swope through the country, change minds and hide
the evidence. Previously there was always "back issues" that could be
researched, or library subscriptions, or microfilm -- today there is
no audit trail for ephemeral memes, and nobody is going to take what
was never granted by ME, the people, the right to keep an archival
copy of corporate propaganda.

USENET has always posted copies of ephemeral articles, and still does,
and I uphold that tradition. Since there are several archives, posting
ephemeral material puts a library copy, a "morgue copy" on deposit so
that future generations can trace the history of how minds were
changed leading to sequences of events leading to one out of a
multiplicity of all possible futures.

They ain't going to "come after me" because I would win, they would
lose, and no future asswipes like you would ever be able to be bluffed
to their domineering posture. By not coming after me, they at least
get free surrenders from wimps like you who don't have any rights that
they choose not to give to you. That's the difference between your
mind and mine -- I have rights because they belong to me -- but you
only have rights until rich people decide you don't have them any
more. Big difference, punk. Now stop licking my boots and go to the
fridge and open me a beer, and doubletime, toady.

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