ishbadiddle: i haven't blogged this yet but 2 beatles links
ishbadiddle: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/29/copyright_prevented_.html
ishbadiddle: http://www.airwindows.com/analysis/Albums/BeatlesWhiteAlbum/index.html
molanphy: Thx. Boy, the supply of Beatles-related links/memes is endless, innit?
ishbadiddle: pretty much.
ishbadiddle: i think the idea of copyright preventing a song from being released *into space* is pretty hilarious
molanphy: Well, hey, you never know who could be file trading in space
ishbadiddle: LGMster?
ishbadiddle: (Little Green Men)
ishbadiddle: besides we've been *broadcasting* this stuff since Marconi....
molanphy: But the fidelity from a golden phonograph record! So much better than broadcast...my god! The labels have got to put a stop to it! SUE VOYAGER!
ishbadiddle: yeah but what if Voyager becomes the center of a hostile alien civilization, a la Star Trek?
ishbadiddle: it could totally countersue then.
molanphy: And then we would all experience blige.
ishbadiddle: Mary J?
molanphy: No, a state of cacophonous interplanetary imprisonment. Leaned about it in a Star Trek game with Ted, Andrea and Jay one time.
ishbadiddle: sounds like the proper punishment for interstellar copyright violators
molanphy: They deserve nothing less. Steal satellite recordings and trade them, will they....!
ishbadiddle: hmmm, in lieu of actually writing a blog post, can i just blim this?
molanphy: Knock yo'self out
ishbadiddle: unless you have something else clever to say at this point :)
molanphy: You might title the post something like "Across the Universe."
ishbadiddle: ooh, that's good.
molanphy: "Copyright extends Across the Universe" something like that
molanphy: I'd play with Lennon's lyrics, but they're pretty obtuse
ishbadiddle: the irony is that the images from the Golden Record are themselves copyrighted
ishbadiddle: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
molanphy: Worlds within worlds, my friend.
ishbadiddle's head spins
That's nothing. I've used copyright boilerplate along the lines of:
"We own this stuff in perpetuity and throughout the universe, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, without separate compensation to you or any other person or entity."
Note some of the additional defenses here (besides the meager "throughout the universe" clause): I own your stuff even if it gets put into technologies that don't currently exist, and not only do I not have to pay you for it, but I don't owe any "entities" anything. So don't go morphing into a spirit form, bey-otch.
I own you.
Comment #1 :: link :: June 1, 2005 12:10 PMHey Jimpy! Can I use that copyright statement?!
Comment #2 :: link :: June 5, 2005 5:59 AM :: homepageNo.
I've copyrighted it.
(You knew that was coming, didn't you?)
Comment #3 :: link :: June 7, 2005 11:08 AM
