Meet ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Get familiar with this bill and spread this to as many people as you can. I can’t stress how important of a subject matter this is.
FUCK
In response to the United States Department of Justice shutting down the popular MEGAUPLOAD website, hacktivist group Anonymous has shut down the Department of Justice website.
I think Anonymous won the hearts of millions today.
#TEAMHACKERZ
NB: Is there a relationship between copyleft ideologies and feminism?
EK: Yeah, totally. I think that copyright is based on ownership and it’s based on rights over someone or something else, and I think that copyright law is inherently patriarchal. It totally mimics the system and the structure of ownership and oppression – there’s a whole discourse on it and a whole section of copyright law and feminism that speaks to why copyright law is inherently patriarchal. If you just Google feminism plus fair use or feminism plus copyright law, you’ll see some of those articles, and they’re great and they’re really interesting.
I mean, I’ve said this before, I think I’m not sick of women telling people how they want their work to be used. I think that’s great and incredible, I think women should tell people how they want their work to be used and not stolen or not reproduced or whatever it is. I also do think, though, that in the end respecting peoples’ creative times and the work that they’ve done, you shouldn’t distinguish between gender for that, and in the end I do think that copyleftist policies are probably a little bit more fulfilling for creators on both ends of things.
(Definition of copyleft here.)
