{"id":2956,"date":"2009-05-16T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2009-05-16T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T19:32:24","slug":"copyright-law-love-and-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/copyright-law-love-and-hate.html","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Law, Love and Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/may\/13\/cory-doctorow-copyright\"><strong>Cory Doctorow has an interesting take<\/strong><\/a> on the differing attitude of copyright between those who wish to wish to honor a creative work and those who wish to diminish it.\u00a0 An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The upshot of this is that you&#8217;re on much more solid ground if you want to quote or otherwise reference a work for the purposes of rubbishing it than if you are doing so to celebrate it. This is one of the most perverse elements of copyright law: the reality that loving something doesn&#8217;t confer any right to make it a part of your creative life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An added bonus is a reference to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_(TV_series)\">Firefly<\/a>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fan_fiction\">fan fiction<\/a> that I hadn&#8217;t encountered before, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamcafe.com\/firefly.html\">My Own Kind of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tk421.net\/librarylink\/\">Library Link of the Day<\/a> (16 May 2009)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow has an interesting take on the differing attitude of copyright between those who wish to wish to honor a creative work and those who wish to diminish it.\u00a0 An excerpt: &#8220;The upshot of this is that you&#8217;re on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/copyright-law-love-and-hate.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[2925,2931,2943,2962],"tags":[5344,3098,4361,4539,4538],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-fair-use","category-libraries","category-publishing","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-law","tag-cory-doctorow","tag-fan-fiction","tag-firefly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-LG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}