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Not enough "screw you, too" in the world
Feb. 26th, 2009 05:15 pmCopyright assholes trolls want to keep fans from doing readings of PUBLIC DOMAIN stories.
Ugh. I'm really getting tired of the way the entertainment industry and corporations of their ilk make these copyright grabs at the expense of the little guys who aren't even turning a buck doing this. These are fans reading public domain material.
I encourage you send an email to the contact email that the company lists: info@paradox-entertainment and tell the CEO, Fredrik Malmberg or the Licensing Coordinator, Dan Fierst that you don't approve of what they're doing. Feel free to look them up through Google or any other legal means if the email doesn't get through.
Of course, the email is one of those catch alls that nobody reads, so I encourage you to call the company's phone number: +1 (323) 655 1700 to protest.
Well, there's another company I'll never do business with. Not that I'm a Conan fan, but I definitely won't be buying any of their toys, games, or seeing any movie which they have any rights to. I encourage you to do the same.
As a writer, I believe in public domain and the attempt by any company to take something away from the people for the purposes of licensing it to make plastic toys and a little profit disgusts me. I believe that literature ought to be made as free as possible. In my own personal view, having to wait 50 to 75 years after an author's death for the material to become public domain is too long. I realize I'll have people who disagree with me, but in my view: public domain is public good and I believe in public good.
Of course, right now I'm an unpublished nobody who couldn't give it away for free if I tried, but still. I believe in freebies and obnoxious generosity and not being an asshole about things.
Ugh. I'm really getting tired of the way the entertainment industry and corporations of their ilk make these copyright grabs at the expense of the little guys who aren't even turning a buck doing this. These are fans reading public domain material.
I encourage you send an email to the contact email that the company lists: info@paradox-entertainment and tell the CEO, Fredrik Malmberg or the Licensing Coordinator, Dan Fierst that you don't approve of what they're doing. Feel free to look them up through Google or any other legal means if the email doesn't get through.
Of course, the email is one of those catch alls that nobody reads, so I encourage you to call the company's phone number: +1 (323) 655 1700 to protest.
Well, there's another company I'll never do business with. Not that I'm a Conan fan, but I definitely won't be buying any of their toys, games, or seeing any movie which they have any rights to. I encourage you to do the same.
As a writer, I believe in public domain and the attempt by any company to take something away from the people for the purposes of licensing it to make plastic toys and a little profit disgusts me. I believe that literature ought to be made as free as possible. In my own personal view, having to wait 50 to 75 years after an author's death for the material to become public domain is too long. I realize I'll have people who disagree with me, but in my view: public domain is public good and I believe in public good.
Of course, right now I'm an unpublished nobody who couldn't give it away for free if I tried, but still. I believe in freebies and obnoxious generosity and not being an asshole about things.
