{"id":2870,"date":"2009-11-16T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2009-11-16T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T04:23:36","slug":"new-copyright-watch-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/11\/16\/new-copyright-watch-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"New Copyright Watch Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"copyrightwatch\"The Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/em><\/a> (EFF) has just started a new Copyright Watch<\/em><\/a> site which will monitor developments in copyright law around the world.\u00a0 With a confusing world of corporations trying to prevent us from copying our own DVDs, books, and games, we need all the help we can get to try to keep corporations, lobbyists and politicians in line with something resembling common sense.\u00a0 The best argument I can think of against ebooks, in favor of paper books, is that you actually own your paper books.\u00a0 You can sell them to the shop on the corner if you want to.\u00a0 That simple right is being removed by all the user licenses and copyright lawsuits being brought against people who are just doing innocent things like tinkering with their own game machines, making personal copies of things they own, or trying to lend a book to a friend.<\/p>\n

EFF will try to bring together the most recent copies of laws, track proposals, conferences, and discussions about new copyright regulations that could have a profound effect on all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just started a new Copyright Watch site which will monitor developments in copyright law around the world.\u00a0 With a confusing world of corporations trying to prevent us from copying our own DVDs, books, and games, we need all the help we can get to try to keep corporations, lobbyists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[316,777,2502],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-copyright","tag-electronic-frontier-foundation","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t