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- I just heard that a company called
- "Tulip" owns the copyright to the
- Commodore name and the famous chicken-
- lips icon. I also heard -- and perhaps
- it is just a rumor and/or urban myth
- -- that said company has plans to
- charge anyone who uses the icon.
-
- Oh -- good! Like a dog with a
- bone, these mighty companies don't
- [want] to actually [use] the logo;
- they just don't want anyone else using
- the logo. That's not quite right. They
- WANT anyone else to use the label and
- pay them for the priviledge! And we
- are brainwashed to believe that this
- is all right, meet and proper.
-
- What is quite far from right,
- meet, and proper is the language of
- our copyright law, which has no
- provisions for abandoned or orphaned
- intellectual properties. It is not
- written to protect the creative
- person, but rather to create a
- protected corporate nobility that owns
- everything.
-
- Consider how the corporate music
- industry (which has not published a
- decent song since Billy Joel's "For
- the Longest Time") pounced on Napster
- with both feet. They were losing money
- they hadn't earned. Boo-hoo. I will
- feel sorry for them when [I] have a
- Lexus! Now, after a decade of no
- corporate support for the C= machines
- and software, someone thinks they can
- pop up and say, "Gimmee!"
-
- Well -- I won't. My pockets are so
- shallow, they are dry. The lawyer
- won't squeeze enough money out of me
- to pay for the stamp on the first
- letter! They can bankrupt me, but they
- cannot have one stolen penny from me.
- EVEN IF I am GUILTY of Breaking the
- Law. For the Law is corrupt, null, and
- void.
-
- Fortunately, I am out of disk
- space. Enjoy the issue!
-
- DMM
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