Comments on: McCain seeks special 'fair use' copyright rules for VIPs
His presidential campaign has discovered the remix-unfriendly aspects of American copyright law, after several of his campaign videos were pulled from YouTube.
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Isn't that special?
I say, quit cutting and stand in line like the rest of us regular folks.
- by irondog1970 October 24, 2008 11:09 AM PDT
- @digitalshaman: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." I would like to state the right to privacy, while unstated in the Constitution, is a certain unalienable right. It is this unalienable right of privacy that creates such things as the 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, etc.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (34 Comments)Another aspect of the Constitution is the 14th Amendment: equal protection & due process. All people are equal before the law (or at least should be). Therefore, McCain has to suffer with the consequences of the bad law he helped create. I disagree with the DMCA: I think it gives the copyright holder too much and takes away from the people.
Note: I am against piracy. If I don't own an album, it is not "fair use" for me to steal it.
But for the law to be changed, it has to hurt the politicians as well. Why are junk faxes required to have a toll free number for easy removal? Because congressional staff offices were getting flooded with junk faxes. Any member of Congress can see that.
DMCA is bad law, and I hope it changes.