God Gave This Land to Me
9 Responses to God Gave This Land to Me
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sal magundi says:
that’s just brilliant.
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Nina Paley is an activist to return to the Founding Fathers’ non-propertarian “limited times for authors and inventors” system as described in the Constitution.
Her arguments are similar to Stephan Kinsella’s. Kinsella points out that intellectual “property” as we know it was invented by Ayn Rand under influence from Spooner – that the closest thing to “intellectual property” was Crown Copyright (which the Founders’ hated and perverted into a pro-innovation 14-year “limited times for authors and inventors”, and since the 1900s has been repeatedly expanded so as to resemble property).
As a monopoly enforced by government, intellectual “property” is merely extortion and breaking-and-entering which requires a government to enforce). Kinsella is a private-property-only anti-government libertarian, so he would only support defense, whether self-defense or hired defense.
Paley does not want to repeal everything completely like Kinsella does. She favors voluntary waivers like Creative Commons and “limited times” as described in the Constitution. She might come from the left-wing perspective, but I’m not sure.
Paley frequently points out that American society is under assault due to the propertarian view on copyright which “locks up American culture”.
http://questioncopyright.org/about
Her site is http://www.QuestionCopyright.org
She also made a series of cartoons like this, which explain in plain English the differences between copying and theft:
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TomB says:
For some reason I hate Andy Williams singing when you can see Andy Williams singing. But then you hear that voice without looking at him … shazzam. Like swallowing a melted spoonful of the smoothest chocolate evah. Geez that guy could sing. RIP then, Andy: They oughta store your pipes in Fort Knox.
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Nick K. says:
That was quite good, especially the end. Nukes wouldn’t necessarily be a bad option for most of SW Asia. Shame about all the lost archeological sites, though.
Did anyone else notice that Pat Boone (?!?) did the lyrics for the song?
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tbraton says:
“Did anyone else notice that Pat Boone (?!?) did the lyrics for the song?”
Yep. Surprised me as much as it appears to have surprised you.
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thanks for those links Dan. my wife is the copyright person at her university and will be interested.
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toto@club-med.so says:
Her arguments are similar to Stephan Kinsella’s. Kinsella points out that intellectual “property” as we know it was invented by Ayn Rand under influence from Spooner – that the closest thing to “intellectual property” was Crown Copyright
I doubt they really claim that. French droits d’auteur similar to modern copyright have been around since the 19th century.
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Yvonne McLemore says:
WOW!!!!! It’s all there–nothing much left to say. Very well done, excellent. After seeing this my heart feels a bit heavy. Man’s quest for ownership! Kinda sadd. Really.
Nifty piece of work.