This article is written to promote discussion about copyright, its infringment, its escape routes and about the freedom to learn and to evolve. Copyright law says that a work can’t be used for 70 years after its author’s death: this is a lifetime, even when you are a student and the author is just dead.

Marco Infussi

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the winners are. Why then say anymore?

Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If Steal this Film II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.

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Dear S@abun, dearest all other hackerz, this post is about your defacing activities on this website, arrivanoicorti.it.

As you can see, we are a no-profit association, dealing with everyday problems in setting up our annual international short film festival, since 1997, without so much money. We have decided to use our Grab.it! script to gain that little money from Google advertising to ensure this website can remain online.

We know that our website has vulnerabilities, and we ask you: please save us. Protect us, instead of destroying our little work. Attack industries, police or capitalism symbols, but not associations of free thinkers: white hats like Kevin D. Mitnick choose bigger targets. Short films makes people happy: we are happy if they are happy. And we are happier when our shows are free, without any subscription fee for competitors & without any entry ticket for the audience.

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This article is written to promote discussion about copyright laws and fair use. It seems that fair use in only a legal defensible position, not a right. This surely obstacles teaching, learning and society’s overall progress. There is also a subtitles section and their italian translation.

Marco Infussi

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

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