Could The Ultimate Legacy Organization - The Vatican - Be Out In Front On Copyright?
from the all-rites-reserved dept
A recent blogger meet up hosted by the Vatican received some attention for comments with which Techdirt readers would be familiar on copyright, attribution, and new media business models. For example, Italian blogger and author Mattia Marasco highlighted the importance of attribution, but said that copyright is "an old model," when it comes to new media, and Dutch podcaster Father Roderick Vonhogen said that journalists will have to get used to their material being reused, but those who focus on quality will make it. The ideas are nothing new (and just some of many expressed at the event), but it'll be interesting to see if the Vatican is listening. Marasco and Father Roderick are not Vatican officials, though in recent years the Pope and other Vatican officials have expressed concern over "an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property." (The Holy See has, however, asserted its own right to protect the figure of the Pope, but it's unclear what exactly that means.) The Vatican also announced an upcoming News.va website, which will make extensive use of social media and apparently use a non-commercial Creative Commons license (according to Father Roderick [33:40]). Not bad for a 2000-year-old institution. There was also a call for the Holy See Press Office to consider bloggers, when releasing advanced copies of Vatican documents. The meeting was intended to open a dialogue between bloggers and the Vatican, so it'll be interesting to see what the Vatican takes to heart from the encounter and how they continue down the new media path.
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pope's image is 'protected'?
While I praise the use of creative commons I cannot find it in me to like the organization that would shield a molester becuase he happens to be the pope.
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2000 year old institution
Of course it is exactly what you would expect - you don't get to be a 2000 year old institution if you don't recognise which way the wind is blowing and act accordingly.
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2000 Year Copy Maximalists
Which brings up a prayer for the greedy (And yes, the Catholics are the ultimate since they plundered this planet and have MANY treasures stored in their archives because people aren't "qualified" to see such "evilness" as arbitrarily deemed them, because we all KNOW that they are QUALIFIED to judge what is and IS NOT "evil"):
Our father who copyrighteth all
Hallowed by thy trademark
Thy Kingdom legally enforced
Thy will be judged on earth as in the Holy court
For the Kingdom, the Power, and the corporate image
Are (y)Ours now and forever and ever and ever.....more
Enjoy this. And maybe one day they'll see the error of their ways and return their ill-gotten historical bounty to where it came from.
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As for the other evils that come from the revised Bible, let's leave that for another day.
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Naive, indirect and thinly spread it may be, every catholic that doesn't speak out against it carries that guilt in my book.
If you're not the type to hide from naughty language, you can see the perfect summation of my feelings for catholicism in Tim Minchin's Pope Song... popular song, that.
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Just like utopia doesn't exist.
And double-negatives only equal a positive (except in Spanish where "Yo no sé nada" is still negatively connotated).
Sorry my logic offends you. But I don't know where you made the logic jump to MJ not existing.
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I'm sure you guys are aware, but one of the fundamental tenets of catholicism is that people are pretty messed up, but there's hope for improvement.
They definitely mess up. Remember that one bishop who killed Joan of Arc for heresy, only for the pope to step in an make her a saint. (This story may be something I saw in a movie and not 100% historically accurate.)
They have problems today, and they are serious problems. But they are trying to improve. And that's more than can be said for so many institutions and organizations.
So why do we hate on them? Can you imagine the RIAA admitting that exerting corrupt and purchased influence was morally unjustifiable and then trying to stop it.
/How does anyone know about the treasure archive if no one is allowed to see it? Dan Brown?
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Sainthood...
Oh, yeah, they're Catholics. Nevermind...
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