What? Where did Mike say he wanted it there? That's simply where it is and always has been, and has nothing to do with whether your for or against copyright.
I'll just assume you prefer to have the copyright office run by a private organization overseen by the MPAA.
The copyright office's online presence has been a joke for over a decade now. They've been promising for years to digitize their catalog to make it searchable.
Right now if you want to find out the copyright status on any pre-1972 work, you have to pay a minimum of $400 to have someone in Washington DC go look it up for you. For that much money, you can fly there and look it up yourself, although I'll be that their records are such a mess that it takes a trained expert to find anything.
Not that it would do much good, because it's likely that the copyright has changed hands since then anyway, and there's no requirement that the current status of any copyright work be maintained.
Basically, the main thing required to make copyright work is seriously broken, leaving us with a massive copyright graveyard of orphaned works.
If I saw that on a shelf I'd instantly assume it was some new version of a Nestle Crunch bar. It's hard to keep up with all the varieties of candy these days.
I think you overestimate how much the average person cares if their software sends data back to the company that made it. It's about as much as they care that their phone/Facebook/email data is also accessible.
This is what the Linux people never seem to get. Computers need to get easier to use. Moving to Linux makes them harder to use. It's simply not a solution for most people, and certainly not one they'll make over some minor privacy issues.
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I'll just assume you prefer to have the copyright office run by a private organization overseen by the MPAA.
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Right now if you want to find out the copyright status on any pre-1972 work, you have to pay a minimum of $400 to have someone in Washington DC go look it up for you. For that much money, you can fly there and look it up yourself, although I'll be that their records are such a mess that it takes a trained expert to find anything.
Not that it would do much good, because it's likely that the copyright has changed hands since then anyway, and there's no requirement that the current status of any copyright work be maintained.
Basically, the main thing required to make copyright work is seriously broken, leaving us with a massive copyright graveyard of orphaned works.
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The law is holy.
No laws are bad.
No laws are wrong.
There is no justice.
There is no objectivity.
There is only law.
Obey.
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