Walt Mossberg of the Washington Post has an excellent essay about copyright.
He points out that Congress has slacked off and not made clear rules for ordinary people to follow. Big corporations asked for, and got, exceptions protecting them from reasonable behaviour. But the law treats ordinary consumers as criminals.
Stealing movies and selling them to make money is a bad thing. But showing a movie you bought a copy of to a few friends on a projector that happens to be at work should be ok. Stupid Republicans.
Smart Walt Mossberg. Stupid Viacom suing Google. Sad that Carol Burnett is suing Family Guy. She is going to lose that one.
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