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Protection of the Public Domain and ensuring fair use for the People aka Copyright Sanity

Created by D.H. on January 22, 2012

Let’s try this for a legislation package in the United States, Australia, and everywhere else we can:

It must be made absolutely clear that the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare time; it regulates commercial, intent-to-profit activity only. Specifically, file sharing is always legal.
Free sampling. There must be exceptions that make it legal to create mashups and remixes. Quotation rights, like those that exist for text, must be extended to sound and video. The public domain must be strengthened.
Net neutrality must be guaranteed.
Levies on blank media are outlawed.
Overall, it must always be clear where the line goes; “the courts will sort it out” areas are not acceptable and tantamount to outlawing.

Civil Rights & Equality
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