It's A Small World After Monsanto Takes All - IP Community

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The Playlist According To Monsanto:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E5A91E6C5EAE3E5D

H.R. 5889: Orphan Works Act of 2008
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-5889
S. 2913: Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2913
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/25/orphan-works-bills-introduced/
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

H.R. 3578: Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act
To safeguard the economic health of the United States and the health and safety of United States citizens by improving the management, coordination, and effectiveness of domestic and international intellectual property rights enforcement, and for other purposes.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3578

H.R. 3155: Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal Enforcement Act of 2007
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3155



[Hazzy on the disp.]

In April of 2008 the social necrotic of Intellectual Property Law manifested in illustratingly infelicitous fashion.

A Google-hosted video of "The World According To Monsanto - A Documentary That Americans Won't Ever See" was discovered; "in the wild", as it were. The video file was localized by choosing the "Download for Email" option provided by Google. This file was split into 12 segments for the YouTube audience as an educational service, being as the title implied that it was not being carried, broadcast or shown in the USA and the subject material impinges upon all Citizens.




The word "impinge" has a mid 16th century ORIGIN: from Latin impingere 'drive something in or at,' from in- 'into' + pangere 'fix, drive.' The word originally meant [thrust at forcibly] then [come into forcible contact]; hence [encroach on] by mid 1700's: intrude on, infringe (on), invade, trespass on, obtrude, cut through, interfere with; violate; horn in on.

It is specifically describing the dislocation and disenfranchisement of the average person due to Enclosure of the Commons.




As predicted, the series was blocked at [host] due to copyright violation within 24 hours.

An attempt to provide alternate hosting was met
with immediate response, expected due to the
transparency of approach. Videos posted were removed within minutes of upload.

If education was the goal in producing the film,
The Film Board of Canada seem to be working against it.




Overtime.

It should be noted that no [userprofile] was harmed in this, the [Host] merely made the offending vids unstreamable. This appears to be a case of copyright interfering with educational endevours, and a fairly painless one at that. It's understandable for creators to want distributive control of the media they make, but fair use of media from all mediums should be considered a trust of the public, a given grey area where one's work enters the Commons of Human Knowledge and truly becomes a shared resource. It isn't about piracy, and it isn't about publishing or concessionary property.

It is about information, the exchange of which should be encouraged. It is about education, requisite to weigh the issue of a transnational corporate body with a toxic track record owning the Nation's food supply; owning food, all food, due in no small part to the exploitation of an oxymoronic legal dysfunction known as Intellectual Property.

It is about Enclosure; that abhorition of Human Processes that fences, walls, divides, alienates, separates and denies the Individual the Commons in favor of usurping it for profit and power. That vile, arrogant tool of the Developer Classes that pushes and prods peasants from farm to factory to phone bank, from sharing grazing pasture to sharing mass graves, from open waters to the bellies of company trowlers. Enclosure of the land has been completed.

Enclosure of the Public Trust has nearly been completed, with the death of analogue broadcasting in 2009 being one of the last hedgerows. Think about it: most utility resources are spoken for, fenced away from casual use as needed by individuals and in most cases privatized with State enforcement of trespass.

There is one Commons left. Our Common Mind, our Intellect; which is the dynamic hypernodal expression of our individual contributions to the Shared Folder of Human Knowledge and Experience.




[Hazzy 0ut.]

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[mikefrmack]

if Bob made this vid tanx Bob...love your work....lol

[BobForehead]

Thnx, mike'mack! Happy Late Autumntimes!

[beancube2008]

If there is a thing that there are more than two persons needs it, it involves public interest. How were public and commercial interests started to confuse us? Possession and proclamation. As everybody is struggling in the term, only throwing away and keeping it collecting dust are still a interest. Mind control and manipulation established as our true nature. Currency is for trade. Trades should not be establishing destructions but we see their skews and cycles functioned better. Why?

[BobForehead]

Because we're lazy, selfish monkeys.

[BobForehead]

..didn't want to give an impression of cursivity in replying to your (understandable) query RE: Monsanto IP Community... where did it get too confusing (if you can remember)? Are there specific times in the vid that stand out as needing, say... extra scrolling time, or maybe better definition... there's one passage i know is too small to read in the YouTube squish version; ... you as representative of the self-educating Public™ have a spontaneous Right to have information elucidated as desired.

[BobForehead]

The text and links in the info box should help...it does get quiet in the middle though, before the Brazillian IP cops show up....

[KARStarla]

I cant even hear it or read it as it goes onto the middle. Can you tell me what its about?

[BobForehead]

thnx, Crd!

[catrapesdog99]

this video is awesome BOB  thanx 5 stars