Redwood Asylum (emeritus)
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Category Links In Posts
I added this feature to my template. Works as advertised. Cool...
And A Little Mouse Shall Lead Them...
Disney Uber Alles aka Eldred v. Ashcroft
"The Congress shall have the power . . . To Promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
All opposing briefs have been filed in the Supreme Court case. Here is a short case summary from law.com for those not familiar with the theft, by our Congresscritters, of public domain works from "we the people." Your tax dollars, supplemented with Disney (and other) lobbying funds, at work. Mickey Mouse was about to become public domain property, as intended by the Constitution. Disney purchased Congresscritters to change the copyright act. No surprise, as Congress does not work for "we the people", but for "we the lobbyists" of deep-pocket corporations. Do not look behind the curtain, Dorothy, for I am the Great and Powerful Oz.
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig's copyright slides from the recent O'Reilly Open Source convention are very informative. This is a large (8.5 MB) file, so you probably don't want to try this on a dial-up connection.
"Create Like It's 1790" is one slogan from the Eldred site, as is "Free The Mouse". Why 1790? Earlyamerica.com has a short abstract of the first U.S. copyright act, signed by the Speaker and the President of the Senate on May 25, 1790 and by George Washington on May 31, 1790. The site includes a scanned image of the act as published in The Columbian Centinel on July 17, 1790. The "limited time" copyright term (remember that pesky Constitutional wording above?) was initially 14 years, with a right of renewal for another 14 years.
Congress, dancing under their puppet strings, continues to bypass Constitutional intent by effectively changing the words "limited times" to the simple word..... "forever." Does the Supreme Court have the balls and ovaries to tell Congress to stop stealing the public heritage? Oral arguments before the court start October 9th.
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Tuesday, August 13, 2002Category Links In Posts
I added this feature to my template. Works as advertised. Cool...
[RadioFAQs]Question: How can I add Category Links to Radio Entries? Answer: Adding Category Links to Radio Entries. I'm attempting now to include a list of the categories associated with each entry, following a pointer from Matthew Ernest to a script by Marc Paschal. For me, this is like following a recipe without really understanding the stove, so if it doesn't work I hope it doesn't screw up the legibility of the entries. [Radio Free Blogistan] Answer: Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page..Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to:
- a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder.
- the code for your Item template that calls it:
<%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.["<%paddedItemNum%>"]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%>Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to the macro.
Thanks also to Rick and Roland for pointing the way.
[Phil Wolff: Blue Sky Radio] [dws.]
And A Little Mouse Shall Lead Them...
Disney Uber Alles aka Eldred v. Ashcroft
"The Congress shall have the power . . . To Promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
All opposing briefs have been filed in the Supreme Court case. Here is a short case summary from law.com for those not familiar with the theft, by our Congresscritters, of public domain works from "we the people." Your tax dollars, supplemented with Disney (and other) lobbying funds, at work. Mickey Mouse was about to become public domain property, as intended by the Constitution. Disney purchased Congresscritters to change the copyright act. No surprise, as Congress does not work for "we the people", but for "we the lobbyists" of deep-pocket corporations. Do not look behind the curtain, Dorothy, for I am the Great and Powerful Oz.
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig's copyright slides from the recent O'Reilly Open Source convention are very informative. This is a large (8.5 MB) file, so you probably don't want to try this on a dial-up connection.
"Create Like It's 1790" is one slogan from the Eldred site, as is "Free The Mouse". Why 1790? Earlyamerica.com has a short abstract of the first U.S. copyright act, signed by the Speaker and the President of the Senate on May 25, 1790 and by George Washington on May 31, 1790. The site includes a scanned image of the act as published in The Columbian Centinel on July 17, 1790. The "limited time" copyright term (remember that pesky Constitutional wording above?) was initially 14 years, with a right of renewal for another 14 years.
Congress, dancing under their puppet strings, continues to bypass Constitutional intent by effectively changing the words "limited times" to the simple word..... "forever." Does the Supreme Court have the balls and ovaries to tell Congress to stop stealing the public heritage? Oral arguments before the court start October 9th.
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