Re: [LAD] students and copyright

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 re all, On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 03:29:53PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote: as an author is nice to register a copyright without effort and institutional bureaucracy, especially when not aiming at restricting people rights with your creations. that's the partial win of the Creative Commons licences in the art world... "registering your copyright" for musicians in a place like Italy is something like "share the income of your popularity with the SIAE mafia" which is going to send hit-squads all over the country to break partys whenever your songs are singed or played - and this really happens believe me, even with kids singing songs at birthday parties. AFAIK the situation is very similar in Spain, with the SGAE. the GNU GPL agile copyright registration aimed at freedom helps us little fishes survive despite the "marauding giants" - institutions, corporations, etc. as in a student - university relationship can be. a common situation of attribution of authorship in Universities in a place like Italy, again: professors (we call them barons) often use the production of their students for their "side jobs" as corporate consultants. sometimes organising little "prizes" (like trips to Apple in Cupertino, for instance) meanwhile sending them all the projects made by students for which the copyright and production agreement is very blurred: the name (and cigar smoking) of the professor on top with the company sponsoring the prizes and then a confusing list of "students" participating. now you know a good reason why i've emigrated :) ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E Nowadays only soubrettes, body builders, media owners and "the richest bozo in the pond" tend to be elected by a population of zombified slaves happy to run inside their guinea pig wheels Fravia, April 2009, http://fravia.com/swansong.htm