Posted on 10/13/2015 4:26:36 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/13/congressional-review-of-copyright-law-may-threaten-drudge-report/
Congressional Review Of Copyright Law May Threaten Drudge Report Photo of Kerry Picket Kerry Picket Reporter 5:20 PM 10/13/2015
WASHINGTON — Congress may update digital copyright law affecting aggregator sites, like the Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics, along with news sites in the near future.
“Two years ago, the House Judiciary Committee launched a comprehensive review of our nation’s copyright laws, which have not been updated since 1976. As technology continues to rapidly advance, we have a responsibility to ensure that our laws are keeping pace with these developments,” Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte said in a statement.
Since March of 2013, the House Judiciary Committee has conducted 20 hearings, which included testimony from 100 witnesses on the subject of copyright law in the digital age. The topics range from fair use to scope of copyright protection to music licensing.
“The committee has been conducting a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law to ensure that the law keeps pace with the digital age in which we live. The goal of the listening tour is to step out of Washington, D.C. to hear from creators and innovators in terms of what is and is not working for them in their various fields,” a committee staffer told The Daily Caller.
The committee staffer would not say how the laws would affect aggregators and news sites and said that only “all stakeholders are invited to come in and meet with staff in order to give their thoughts or express concerns. Those meetings are ongoing.”
Drudge Report site owner Matt Drudge told Alex Jones of InfoWars last week that copyright laws could very well end his popular site.
“I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.”
He explained, “To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed. That will end [it] for me – fine – I’ve had a hell of a run,” said Drudge, adding that web users were being pushed into the cyber ‘ghettos’ of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.”
Drudge added, “This is ghetto, this is corporate, they’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return – nothing!”
In July, Chairman Goodlatte and Democrat Ranking Member John Conyers invited witnesses from the Committee’s previous copyright review hearings as well as other interested stakeholders to meet with committee staff to provide additional input on copyright policy issues.
According to the committee, almost 50 meetings were scheduled and those will take several more weeks. Additionally, Goodlatte and Conyers announced that the House Judiciary Committee would conduct a listening tour as part of the copyright review.
Yeah, no worries man, what’s the big deal?
The Silicon Valley corporations you mentioned all are worth billions. They can afford royalty fee schemes for using / redistributing copyright content.
Little guy alternate media news sites / political activist sites like FR, Town Hall, and others we rely on would find content use and sharing royalty fees to be hugely burdensome.
RE: “Yeah, it would put Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter out of business as well. I wouldn’t worry too much.”
Twitter is almost out of business. Increased fees will put the rest of them out of business.
You don’t think Zuckerburg wants to pay HIS profits for copyright fees. They will lobby hard against it,
Drudge and FR drive traffic to websites. I’ve seen Drudge crash websites before.
How is this hurting these businesses?
Obviously, it helps conservatives. Dems want to shut it down.
“Yeah, it would put Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter out of business as well. I wouldn’t worry too much.”
On the contrary, the 20th Century Berne Convention and changes in U.S. Copyright have been eroding and destroying the very foundation of Human civilization. One of the key attributes which has made Humans so successful and prolific as an adaptive species of lifeform has been its ability to communicate the knowledge and experience gained in a current and previous generations to the successor generations. This ability to faithfully communicate knowledge to current and future generations is an inalienable right Humanity requires to maintain and improve civilization. The inalienable right to free speech is a recognition of the need to protect the communication of knowledge in order to protect and improve civilization. The 1st Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the right to free speech, yet the Constitution also granted Congress the power to give the creators of original works a form of temporary monopoly in the form of copyrights and patents to encourage their creation. These temporary monopolies infringed upon the 1st Amendment right of free speech to an extent limited by Congress, foreign states, and international agreements by treating the works as intangible assets or intangible properties that can be bought and sold in ways similar to tangible properties. During the 20th Century, however, the proprietary property owners prevailed upon Congress to renege on the original purpose and method of encouraging the creation of the works for a temporary monopoly by in effect making some of these monopolies permanent during any one lifetime or generation of Human civilization for most intents and purposes. The end result is the increasing loss of these original works and/or their inaccessibility to most of the Human civilization who could benefit from such proprietary and free knowledge.
Another problem has been the deliberate creation of a system which requires the securing of copyright permissions without also providing a means by which it can be determined who to contact for the copyright permission, where to contact the copyright owner, or whether or not the copyright has been abandoned by the death of the copyright owners and heirs or the dissolution of the corporate owner. Legal access to a work can be lost due to an inability to gain practical access to the information necessary to contact the parties necessary to negotiate copyright permissions.
These and many other problems are stifling the ability to keep countless works in publication where civilization can benefit from continued access to such works. In the end, the 1st Amendment right to free speech is being gravely impeded by the way in which Congress overreaches the temporary grants of these monopolies and makes them virtual permanent grants of monopolies that defeat the ability to pass the knowledge in such works to future generations and civilizations.
Sunlight’s the best disinfectant. Do we have anyone who can get the text of the bill? Maybe if we spread out and sound the alarm, name names of those who would vote for it, might help.
Biggest thing we can do is primary the traitors or find an opponent to take out the commies. Of course, in PA, I don’t even think Bob Casey will be challenged. I wish Santorum didn’t have stars in his eyes, might have been able to take Casey out.
BFL
Post google search terms that take you to the article????
Well, It’s a good thing everyone went out in 2010 and 2014 to get a republican congress.
Whew!
I hope people are thinking, a Romney type president is a disaster, even more than they did in 2012, when 3,000,000 wisely said, now who needs this?
It is NOT the lesser of two evils as much as it is evil
F them. They shut down drudge i will start a distributed site.
In other words, they’re trying to destroy the distribution of information they detest.
Crony Corporatism.
These same media outlets ENCOURAGE the sharing of articles on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook (some even have 1-click buttons to share headlines, newsphotos, and excerpts online).
Can’t have it both ways, Big Media.
It’s also about controlling the narrative and slant of political discourse.
I remember watching a documentary or maybe fiction showing a European demonstrating to an American Indian what writing was, and how someone could read it aloud and duplicate what someone else had just said.
The Indian said something like, This is why you will succeed.
Won’t be illegal if you have permission to link.
HuffPo will get permission.
FreeRepublic will not.
We may soon need a Freeper re-write team.
The actual news cannot be copyrighted...just the text of a news item.
Very interesting.
yeah, that’s what i dont get.
it’s a bonanza for those sites.
honestly, i would never go to brietbert or newsmax or daily caller or any of the other conservative sites that articles are pulled from here.
none of those websites are going to complain about FR using their headlines.
It is not a payoff, it is a control of the news that is dispersed to the kingdom of the new world order.
In order for it to survive, they must contain the news that is distributed. Control the outlets first.
Hell, Hitler knew this. Lenin knew this. China and Putin still practice it.
Isn’t Conyers the one that said the island was going to tip over?
And if so, WTH is he doing with intellectual items?
Why? Because it is the recognized government. That gives it legitimacy.
The alternatives, as I see them, are: (1)restoration, or (2) revolution, or (3) resignation.
I don’t wish to just resign myself to this situation, and the only legitimate revolution is one that follows every conceivable attempt at restoration.
At least, that was the logic of the Founding Fathers. They didn’t begin the revolution until their list of usurpations was so great that it was the only alternative.
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