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i'm not particularly inclined to participate in this IP petition given certain reasons.
primary to which, the internet was born out of a post-modern democraticised free-reign intellectual property philosophy. it was meant as almost a lawless space where ideas can be communicated without external censor or barricades. this has allowed information to multiply at great exponential rates.
i know there's a long list of IP/ copyright claims involved, but let's be honest, many on and offline publishers are equally or even more heinously culprit to these infringements. besides, IP is a slippery slope. let's consider this closely, if said stolen images were profile pics, then who holds IP rights? the publisher (person in profile), the photographer (presumably someone taking the photo), or the greater engine (e.g. friendster). if the photographer gives you rights to publish your photo on your profile, you have some rights over them though not necessarily exhaustive. but if the engine allows you to publish them, then does the engine gain some rights over you? what does it mean when friendster publishes random pictures on its splash page without users' knowledge? or when google images pop images from your site, but turns out that the rights to this image was given only to you for your exclusive publishing. is google then republishing that image with the wrong acknowledgement that is your URL?
and are we really going to point fingers at ST when behind these screens, we're d/l-ing mp3s and movies, rehashing ideas from books, stealing images from books, etc all in favour of various pursuits from intellectual to leisure.
i haven't seen the article in question, but looking at how the petition was drawn up, and the seemingly uncertain IP rights arrangement between users and engines, the overriding problem seems to hinge more on a defamation slant--claiming that ST's article used the images to paint a derogatory picture, hence implicating subjects as purveyvors. what if this were a positive article of promotion, would it still cause an uproar?
this course of action, imho, is just not the way to go for a society that seeks greater freedom of speech and artistic licenses. when various bloggers were brought to task for what they commented on their blog, similar guerilla techniques were employed to shut the blogs down.
the internet is a powerful medium that can reverse any injustice brought upon people without this petition. this petition is nothing but an outright legal threat against ST. in turn, a very visceral threat to every person involved in not only the relay and production of knowledge, but also conveyance of an opinion.
if there's any lesson to be learnt here, it's that receivers of information need to be a little more critical of what they absorb. and online publishers be a little more discrete with what they publish, if IP is such a huge hang-up.
my advice, if you have such hang ups, don't publish anything online.
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