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Intellectual Property Laws... Rewritten As Poetry
from the did-you-copyright-that dept
Damn. Techdirt reader Yehuda Berlinger alerts us to the fact that he recently completed rewriting UK Copyright Law, in verse. Yes, he's reimagined the law as a poem. Here's just a clip:
3And it's not just UK Copyright Law. He's actually done US Copyright Law, Canadian Copyright Law, US Patent Law and US Trademark Law. It's impressive, to say the least. Berlinger is the first to admit that the poetry isn't particularly good, but says "that's part of the point." He says he does it "because I want to read the actual copyright codes, but can't do it unless I'm entertaining myself in the process. Also, writing summations of each section helps me to remember." Check them all out...
You copyright books
And programs, all sized
Written or recorded
Even unauthorized
3A
Databases, too,
By which they mean lists
Of things, are also
In this here gist
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Art includes maps
And casts of all sorts
Buildings and sketches
So on and so forth
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Cute.
But the K-mart reference should be "blue lighted", not "red lighted".
Copyright's pretty pathetic when you read it in verse.
Shameful, actually.©
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Awesome
But isn't it infringement? Can someone legally poetize the copyright code? It's just not right!
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Re: Awesome
You have but to read...
Nothing the government
Makes is copyrighted
But they can buy copyrights
At K-mart sales, red-lighted
... so of course it isn't infringement since the government can't copyright the copyright code.
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besides being an epic post, I just may read over parts of that actual docs now, as it seems most everything makes some sort of sense...until you hit audio...wtf, just, wtf :(
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Re: Cute.
[[But the K-mart reference should be "blue lighted", not "red lighted".]]
But that's the punny part! :(
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