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What was the original intent for having copyrights, trademarks, Reserved, patents, trade secrets, etc? That's what I'm going to talk about in this article. Why? Because understanding copyright can help us understand what is currently happening with the censorship which heated up in the 2010's through the aid of tech cartels and others. Long story short, technology has been weaponized by technocracy. Sadly, copyrights can be used to steal intellectual property. On top of that, globalists have violated our freedoms. They have violated Fair Use, Safe Harbor, the Public Domain, the fourth amendment, etc, in the United States of America (USA), in the EU, and especially in China. That's why people advocate an Internet Bill of Rights. In order to understand copyright, we should first reverse engineer it. We should look at its origin found in history. Consider this rough-draft post a quick introduction to the history and law of copyright, etc. Feel free to add anything you want in the comments below.

Limitation

A major limitation on copyright is that copyright protects only the original expression of ideas, and not the underlying ideas themselves.

Perpetual

Perpetual Copyright refers to a copyright with infinity lives. As in, eternal, no term limit. Why shouldn't it be forever?

Origin of Copyright Law - Part 001

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Published - 2019-08-11 - Sunday - 05:15 PM PST LMS

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Origin of Copyright Law - Part 001 - PST - as follows:

Purpose Behind Copyrights

Copyright is a type of intellectual property (exclusive rights) aimed at protecting those rights of what is copied and how, etc, allegedly, potentially, theoretically, in some cases, to an extent or absolutely, and hopefully in all cases, some might say, allegedly.

Limitations

Limitations and exceptions to copyright includes Fair Use because users have rights as well, right? In other words, there is Copyright and there is User Rights as well which seeks to balance the free market between buyers and sellers, the creators and the users. Some people argue about whether User Rights are "RIGHTS" or limitations to copyright. But either way, the two can, hypothetically, seek to balance each other out some might argue to the extent that user rights are not too excessively and aggressively violated. Easement is a compromise, a negotiation, between at least two parties where the dominant party is granted a right to trespass over the land of the other party in order to get to another section of land owned by the dominant party or something.

Trolls

Patent Trolls try to enforce patent rights, etc, beyond legal provision. Are the tech cartels guilty of being trolls? That's what I would ask Trump, Alex Jones, Julian Assange, Cernovich, Lionel Nation, lawyers, leaders, etc. Crown copyright has been claimed by governments and has, in some cases, claimed permanent copyright over unpublished works.

Federal Exception

A work of the United States government is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. government, under section 105, and is not entitled to copyright protection. If Facebook is Lifelog, that is if Facebook was created by the CIA (U.S. government) and via tax dollars, then does that also mean it cannot be copyrighted or whatever the case might be? Has Facebook violated copyright laws or other things because of that or because section 230 or other things? That's what I want to know. We can also ask similar questions concerning Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Twitter, etc.

Abandoned

Abandonware is abandoned software, meaning that the copyright owners abandoned the ware, the software, the hardware, the copyrights, etc; meaning they abandoned copyright enforcement.

Criticism

Criticism of copyright is the criticism of copyright laws, enforcement, etc. So, some people want to limit copyright in the same way some people want to limit taxes, laws, regulations, red tape, etc. In other words, some people want to revert policies to how things were. Some want to expand things like fair use to allow for permissionless copying. Some people want Copyright Abolition.

Misuse

Copyright Misuse is an "equitable defense to copyright infringement in the United States."

History

In order to understand copyright better, you can begin with retracing its history of where it came from. For example, you can follow it back in time to the Richardson Affair of 1895. Richardson copyrighted the Printing Bill. Congress reviewed that and then ended up declaring that Richardson could not copyright that.

Maps

The Copyright Act of 1790 was in regards to securing copyrights to the authors and creators of maps, charts, and books for 14 years plus a possible 14 more years if the authors are still alive.

Statute of Anne

In 1710, the parliament of Great Britain passed this act which was aiming to shift copy "RIGHTS" from the publishers or copiers to the original autographs (authors).

Printing Press

Around 1439 A.D, a printing press was developed.

Church

After that, European countries and the Catholic church began creating copyright law.

Monopolies

Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies," particularly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who frequently gave grants of monopolies in articles of common use, such as salt, leather, coal, soap, cards, beer, and wine. The practice was continued until the Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623, ending most monopolies, with certain exceptions, such as patents; after 1623, grants of Letters patent to publishers became common.

Prohibition

There are similarities between copyright law and prohibition.

Taxes

Also, look at the origin of taxes, which dates back to 2890 B.C. in Egypt where they had annual Cattle Counts. The kings (Pharaohs) would tour the kingdom, the land, and take whatever they wanted from the citizens. Years later, Robin Hood would steal back from rich to give to the poor or so they say. So, a copyright is like a prohibition. A tax is like a tariff. A tax may result in a prohibition if the tax is not paid. For example, look at what the IRS does. So, long story short, you could trace copyright law back to Egypt and to the very dawn of civilization. You can connect copyright to aspects of taxes, tariffs, prohibition, etc. Back in the day, kings would claim land. So, peasants were renting the land. Egypt used copper as a form of money for a while. Generally, the ancient world would use natural resources as a form of monetary units for conducting free market exchange. But regardless, in many cases in history, kings and rulers would claim ownership over land which includes ownership over the natural resources which money would derive from. So, in other words, kings would own almost everything, if not everything, including people (slaves), etc.

Theory

Long story short, copyright, etc, in theory, is good. it can be good. However, tyrannical governments can abuse the exceptions and the extensions in copyright law, etc. Some people have claimed that Walt Disney, for example, stole intellectual property, that is drawings, cartoons, from his business partner, in the early 1900's, and that he copyrighted it or something. If that is true, then that would be an example of how copyrights can be used to steal ideas from the original creators and inventors and authors of those works. I'm a bit scared as at least three of my YouTube channels were terminated already in the 2010's, meaning thousands of videos gone. I've also lost thousands of videos, photos, posts, etc, from the dozens of terminated accounts on Facebook as well. I've been banned, terminated, deleted, removed, banished, erased, thrown off, disabled, deplatformed, depersoned (like Alex Jones), etc, etc, on other social ghetto networks, websites, online forums, etc, on the Internet as well. My works was protected by Fair Use, etc, etc. If you took the time to study Fair Use and other things, you would see what I'm trying to say. Facebook has been acting like a publisher and a platform at the same time. This is part of the reason why I'm writing this right now. This is a simple outline to this topic. We can probably talk for days about these things. To be continued.

Digital World

Beyond that, how does copyright or private ownership rights apply to the Internet, to things that might not be tangible? For example, the digital data might not be the same as physical paper that you can see and touch. Also, the copying of something online could be compared with the action of taking a photograph with a physical camera in public, in a town square or somewhere in the real world that is not private or whatever. So, can you ban somebody from taking a picture of something in public? Good question. It depends.

Virtual Cameras

Computers are like virtual cameras as they have abilities to capture videos, photos, articles, files, data, etc, in the same way that a camera or camcorder can in the real world. So, I would compare the rules governing one with whatever the rules and policies might be for the other. I would also ask about whether electricity can be copyrighted as that is what the data is transferred by. You could claim copyright over physical computers. But what about the moving parts? When you go into the Internet, where are you in the Internet or on the Internet? Well, that depends on the locations of the servers, routers, internet service providers, domain name servers, the web hosts, etc, the different parts of what makes the Internet the Internet. If you go to a website that is being hosted on a computer that is in Vietnam, then is U.S. laws going to violate what might be private property in Vietnam notwithstanding the laws or lack therein in Vietnam, etc, etc? Again, I'm mostly asking questions at this point. I can probably ask questions until the Cows and the Internet lol comes home. Again, to be continued.

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