Cool Copyright articles.

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:44:42 -0400 (EDT)

Creativity v. Intellectual Property
      From the: "What-Goes-Around" dept.
      Posted by: "ryan" on: Wednesday October 03 10 30 PM

      Story:  In a bid to lampoon the current state of copyright law, two
Australian composers have secured the rights to 100,000,000,000 telephone
tone sequences: With the aid of a computer, [Nigel] Helyer and [Jon]
Drummond have notated the tones of every imaginable phone number
combination and, in turn, claimed the melodies as their own. Next time you
make a phone call, therefore, chances are you'll be in breach of
international copyright law.

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20011003223022

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Intellectual Property v. Creativity
      From the: "Smart-Went-Crazy" dept.
      Posted by: "ryan" on: Wednesday October 03 09 20 PM

      Story:  Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The
Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity holds forth
on just that in today's Wired News: "It's hard to ask people to pay
attention to the state of music in America right now," Vaidhyanathan said.
"However, the larger issue is about the richness of our democratic
culture.

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20011003212054

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