[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
www/philosophy copyright-and-globalization.html
|
From: |
Pavel Kharitonov |
|
Subject: |
www/philosophy copyright-and-globalization.html |
|
Date: |
Sun, 27 May 2012 08:47:28 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev> 12/05/27 08:47:28
Modified files:
philosophy : copyright-and-globalization.html
Log message:
Update boilerplate to 1.68; fix typos.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.27&r2=1.28
Patches:
Index: copyright-and-globalization.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html,v
retrieving revision 1.27
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -b -r1.27 -r1.28
--- copyright-and-globalization.html 22 May 2012 14:15:56 -0000 1.27
+++ copyright-and-globalization.html 27 May 2012 08:47:13 -0000 1.28
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.68 -->
<title>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks -
-GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
+GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/copyright-and-globalization.translist" -->
<h2>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks</h2>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
“free software.”</p>
<p>
So if I am to be an honest advocate for free software, I can hardly go
-around giving speeches, then put pressure on people to use non-free
+around giving speeches, then put pressure on people to use nonfree
software. I'd be undermining my own cause. And if I don't show that
I take my principles seriously, I can't expect anybody else to take
them seriously.</p>
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@
<p>
The U.S. though is not the first country to make a priority of this.
The Soviet Union treated it as very important. There this
-unauthorized copying and re-distribution was known as Samizdat and to
+unauthorized copying and redistribution was known as Samizdat and to
stamp it out, they developed a series of methods: First, guards
watching every piece of copying equipment to check what people were
copying to prevent forbidden copying. Second, harsh punishments for
@@ -792,14 +793,14 @@
the number of people who are participating in the network, and that
number, we know, is going to increase by an order of magnitude over a
number of years. If we tried it today, it might fail, and that
-wouldn't prove anything because with ten times as money people
+wouldn't prove anything because with ten times as many people
participating, it might work.</p>
<p>
The other thing is, we do not have this digital cash payment system;
so we can't really try it today. You could try to do something a
little bit like it. There are services you can sign up for where you
-can pay money to someone — things like Pay Pal. But before you
-can pay anyone through Pay Pal, you have to go through a lot of
+can pay money to someone — things like PayPal. But before you
+can pay anyone through PayPal, you have to go through a lot of
rigmarole and give them personal information about you, and they
collect records of whom you pay. Can you trust them not to misuse
that?</p>
@@ -810,7 +811,7 @@
there's nothing to discourage you except the actual amount of money.
And if that's small enough, why should it discourage you. We know,
though, that fans can really love musicians, and we know that
-encouraging fans to copy and re-distribute the music has been done by
+encouraging fans to copy and redistribute the music has been done by
some bands that were, and are, quite successful like the
“Grateful Dead.” They didn't have any trouble making a
living from their music because they encouraged fans to tape it and
@@ -827,7 +828,7 @@
<p>
<b>DISCUSSION</b>:</p>
<p>
-<b>QUESTION</b>: [A comment and and question about free downloading and
+<b>QUESTION</b>: [A comment and question about free downloading and
about Stephen King's attempt to market one of his novels serially over
the web.]</p>
<p>
@@ -862,7 +863,7 @@
<p>
<b>STALLMAN</b>: No. That's not what I proposed. Remember, I'm proposing
that there should be copyright covering commercial distribution and
-permitting only verbatim re-distribution non-commercially. So anyone
+permitting only verbatim redistribution non-commercially. So anyone
who modified it to put in a pointer to his website, instead of a
pointer to the real author's website, would still be infringing the
copyright and could be sued exactly as he could be sued today.</p>
@@ -926,9 +927,9 @@
works, one thing doesn't substitute for another. Let's look at a
functional kind of work, say, a word processor. Well, if somebody
makes a free word processor, you can use that; you don't need the
-non-free word processors. But I wouldn't say that one free song
-substitutes for all the non-free songs or that a one free novel
-substitutes for all the non-free novels. For those kinds of works,
+nonfree word processors. But I wouldn't say that one free song
+substitutes for all the nonfree songs or that a one free novel
+substitutes for all the nonfree novels. For those kinds of works,
it's different. So what I think we simply have to do is to recognize
that these laws do not deserve to be respected. It's not wrong to
share with your neighbor, and if anyone tries to tell you that you
@@ -957,10 +958,10 @@
project which is, in fact, a commercial-free encyclopedia project, and
it's making progress. We had a project for a GNU encyclopedia but we
merged it into the commercial project when they adopted our license.
-In January, they switched to the GNU-free documentation license for
+In January, they switched to the GNU Free Documentation License for
all the articles in their encyclopedia. So we said, “Well,
let's join forces with them and urge people to contribute to
-them.” It's called “NUPEDIA,” and you can find a
+them.” It's called “Nupedia,” and you can find a
link to it, if you look at http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia. So here
we've extended the community development of a free base of useful
knowledge from software to encyclopedia. I'm pretty confident now
@@ -968,7 +969,7 @@
economic incentive to the point where we have to mess up the use of
these works.</p>
<p>
-<b>THORBURN</b>: Well, what about the other two categories.</p>
+<b>THORBURN</b>: Well, what about the other two categories?</p>
<p>
<b>STALLMAN</b>: For the other two classes of work, I don't know. I
don't know whether people will write some day novels without worrying
@@ -1085,13 +1086,13 @@
<p>
<b>STALLMAN</b>: I used to think that that might be enough, and then Napster
convinced me otherwise because Napster is used by its users for
-non-commercial, verbatim re-distribution. The Napster server, itself,
+non-commercial, verbatim redistribution. The Napster server, itself,
is a commercial activity but the people who are actually putting
things up are doing so non-commercially, and they could have done so
on their websites just as easily. The tremendous excitement about,
interest in, and use of Napster shows that that's very useful. So I'm
convinced now that people should have the right to publicly
-non-commercially, re-distributed, verbatim copies of everything.</p>
+non-commercially, redistributed, verbatim copies of everything.</p>
<p>
<b>QUESTION</b>: One analogy that was recently suggested to me for the
whole Napster question was the analogy of the public library. I
@@ -1101,7 +1102,7 @@
shouldn't be restrictions on it sometimes say something like this:
“When folks go into the public library and borrow a book,
they're not paying for it, and it can be borrowed dozens of times,
-hundreds of time, without any additional payment. Why is Napster any
+hundreds of times, without any additional payment. Why is Napster any
different?”</p>
<p>
<b>STALLMAN</b>: Well, it's not exactly the same. But it should be pointed
@@ -1169,7 +1170,7 @@
functional information is idealism. People have to recognize that
it's important for this information to be free, that when the
information is free, you can make full use of it. When it's
-restricted, you can't. You have to recognize that the non-free
+restricted, you can't. You have to recognize that the nonfree
information is an attempt to divide them and keep them helpless and
keep them down. Then they can get the idea, “Let's work
together to produce the information we want to use, so that it's not
@@ -1245,45 +1246,67 @@
Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard
M. Stallman</cite></a>.</h4>
-</div>
+<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
+ pages on the GNU web server should be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.
+ Please do NOT change or remove this without talking
+ with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document.
+ For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the document
+ was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
<div id="footer">
-<p>
-Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
-the FSF.
-<br />
-Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-</p>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
-<p>
-Please see the
-<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
-translations of this article.
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+
+For information on coordinating and submitting translations of this
+article, see <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>.
</p>
-<p>
-Copyright © 2001, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+<p>Copyright © 2001, 2007, 2008, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
</p>
-<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address>
+
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.
-</p>
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/05/22 14:15:56 $
+$Date: 2012/05/27 08:47:13 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-
</div>
</body>
</html>