Hundreds of Tech Companies to Congress: TPP and Fast Track Harms Digital Innovation and Users’ Right

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. It is again the innovative small to medium sized companies fighting for their life againt the

...corporate establishment, whose goal is to squeeze the last ounce of profit any way they can, including killing Fair Use, and with it the internet at we know it, and crushing the competition.


Corporate oligarchs are salivating to destroy the internet by the criminalization of Fair Use, just as they destroyed a balanced public media by destroying the Fairness Doctrine.




What the want is not the advancement of science and the public good by encouraging innovation with limited patent protection for a few year (as authorized in the constitution, and the 14 years protection without possibility of extensionj in the Patent Act of 1790.)

No, their goal is the opposite: discourage intervention by extending patent/copyright protection for a century or so after the inventor's death, even for inventions under much less extensive protections, even for those corporations holding copyrights from creators/inventors like Woody Guthrie, who wrote Re: "This Land Is Your Land":

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie#Copyright_controversy

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The corporatists goals not only do not align with the goals of those who established copyrights and patents to advance the general welfare and advancement of innovation, they are to do the exact opposite: to maximize monopoly power to discourage competition and innovation in order to squeeze every last drop of profit from the public with the least amount of innovation.

A recent UPS delivery man left a notice from UPS asserting, among other things, that UPS owned the copyright protection for the color "brown. , (just as the writers of the constitution intended!)


They desire to destroy the Fair Use doctrine, or to cripple it into irrelevancy>







If ever there was a time we needed Teddy Roosevelt.