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1. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 12:24:03 EST Evan Prodromou

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   @glynmoody families preserving the legacy of creators like MLK is one of the best arguments for copyright term extension
   • Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:26:36 EST Simon Phipps

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     • Evan Prodromou
     Copyright is not about preserving culture, it is about encouraging its creation. Term extension destroys cultural evolution.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:31:50 EST Evan Prodromou

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     Stewardship is something that comes up in almost all copyright extension discussions. It's definitely a crowd-pleaser.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:33:53 EST Evan Prodromou

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     • Simon Phipps
     I just think it's a super-weak lead. I'm a mouth-foaming copyright radical and I found it unappealing.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:34:48 EST Evan Prodromou

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     It puts one of the practically sanctified families in American culture into the position of oppressor.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:35:31 EST Evan Prodromou

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     • Simon Phipps
     It invites the unpleasant comparison between the Civil Rights struggle of the 50s and 60s with today's Internet freedom fights.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:36:55 EST Evan Prodromou

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     • Simon Phipps
     And it invites a framing of clueless privileged white kids who steal from black civil rights leaders and act self-righteous about it.
   • Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 15:58:32 EST Simon Phipps

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     • Evan Prodromou
     I wasn't disagreeing with that part :-) Posting the video was not a well-considered gesture.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 22:32:40 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Evan Prodromou
     @evan, you might like to read up on how #MLK actually went about creating what he did—and why, e.g.: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/9172.html
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 22:55:43 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Evan Prodromou
     Keith Miller's `Voice of Deliverance: the Language of #MLK and Its Sources' shows well what MLK did as a case *against* copyright-expansion.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2013 23:06:40 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Evan Prodromou
     This is why I set aside time on #MLK day to work on !FreeCulture contributions: without a strong corpus to #reuse, the next MLK will be #SOL
   • arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2013 04:51:04 EST arnebab

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     @rozzin what’s #SOL?
   • bobjonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2013 15:07:33 EST bobjonkman

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     • Simon Phipps
     Removing the MLK video prevents us from studying it, learning about effective speech writing, and creating more like it. !copyright == !bad
   • Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2013 15:46:53 EST Simon Phipps

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     • bobjonkman
     I think that oversimplifies. I too wish MLK's speech was freely available, but using it as a token is problematic as @evan explained.