Patry Copyright Blog Closed 129
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "William Patry, noted copyright expert and Google's top copyright lawyer, has decided to close his personal blog. (For no reason that he has explained, the archives are gone too.) Ordinarily, that wouldn't be very newsworthy, but that little blog has made a lot of news, outing the ACTA treaty and discussing lots of other important pending legislation. Mr. Patry gives two reasons for the closure: his personal views were being attributed to Google, and the current trends in copyright law are too depressing. Though I am not the only one to have done so, as someone who has contributed to that misunderstanding by listing his credentials without a disclaimer, I would like to publicly apologize to him. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to reverse the depressing trends in copyright law that I'm not doing already."
Re:Might Wanna Put Some Ice On That (Score:5, Informative)
He also said
On top of this there are the crazies, whom it is impossible to reason with, who do not have a life of their own and so insist on ruining the lives of others, and preferably as many as possible. I asked myself last week after having to deal with the craziest of the crazies yet, "why subject yourself to this?" I could come up with no reason why I should: My grandfather chose to be a psychiatrist, but I chose a different professional path, one that doesn't obligate me to put up with such nonsense.
Funny how slashdot misses that part out.
Not to worry (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I believe him. (Score:5, Informative)
Patry has made it clear that he did not receive pressure from Google to close his blog.
Re:Backwards and upside-down (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Self-censorship? (Score:4, Informative)
That's normal in politics. In Soviet Russia (don't even think it) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was popularly known as "Four words, four lies."
Re:Backwards and upside-down (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Backwards and upside-down (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Self-censorship? (Score:0, Informative)
I think you'll find our conservative parties are called "Liberal", "Labour" and "Family First".
I think you'll find it's "Labor". I'll never know why the party spells it's name wrong.
Re:Self-censorship? (Score:4, Informative)
Two seconds of Googling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party#Etymology [wikipedia.org]
This sucks. (Score:2, Informative)
Fortunately the Wayback Machine is on the case
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://williampatry.blogspot.com [archive.org]
Re:Self-censorship? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Backwards and upside-down (Score:4, Informative)
The Liberal Party is conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues.
You have that back to front. The Libs are "Liberal" in their economic policies (ie: pro-free-market, free trade, anti-union, etc).
They _are_ conservative in their social policies, but I'm pretty sure that (originally, at least) has more to do with the type of people their primary beliefs attract, rather than any specific attempt at being so.
Internet Archive... (Score:1, Informative)
The internet archive has his older blog posts archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/williampatry.blogspot.com/ [archive.org]