{"id":1174,"date":"2012-11-18T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2012-11-18T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:23:38","slug":"house-gop-yanks-copyright-reform-proposal-we-put-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/house-gop-yanks-copyright-reform-proposal-we-put-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP yanks copyright reform proposal, we put it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the House GOP put forward a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20121116\/16481921080\/house-republicans-copyright-law-destroys-markets-its-time-real-reform.shtml\">decent proposal to reform copyright laws<\/a>.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t go as far as we would, but it called out the zombie myths of the copyright cartel, noted how copyright is hindering innovation and offered some useful reforms such as reducing the terms of copyright, requiring registration of copyright, expanding fair use and significantly reducing the fines for copyright infringement.\u00a0 Of course they <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/17\/cowardice-gutless-house-repub.html\">yanked it in 24 hours<\/a> after intense Hollywood lobbying.<\/p>\n<p>Since the report was released at house.gov, and was the product of government employees we consider it to be in the public domain, we put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf\">copy of it up on our server<\/a>.\u00a0 If we have to take it down due to a bogus copyright claim, you can find other copies at <a href=\"http:\/\/keionline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf\">KEI<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/marylandpirates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf\">the Maryland Pirate Party<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20121116\/16481921080\/house-republicans-copyright-law-destroys-markets-its-time-real-reform.shtml\">Techdirt has a good summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the House GOP put forward a decent proposal to reform copyright laws.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t go as far as we would, but it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}