{"id":199331,"date":"2007-08-10T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/10\/another-moronic-ip-initiative\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:01:00","slug":"another-moronic-ip-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/10\/another-moronic-ip-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Moronic IP Initiative."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now the blithering idiots who think that copyright is property <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/09\/fashion\/09ROW.html?ex=1344312000&amp;en=c371f2f5c187f9a8&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">want to apply copyright to designer fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this straight:  It&#8217;s for the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">useful<\/span> arts and sciences.  Says so in the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, there is plenty of fashion (most of it sucky) being made out there.  There is no need to encourage production of more tacky handbags.<\/p>\n<p>IP is about encouraging production of beneficial things, inventions, arts, etc.  It&#8217;s not about allowing people to print their own money so that they can make bigger campaign donations to you, senator <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><strike>butthead<\/strike><\/span> Schumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now the blithering idiots who think that copyright is property want to apply copyright to designer fashion. Let&#8217;s get this straight: It&#8217;s for the useful arts and sciences. Says so in the constitution. What&#8217;s more, there is plenty of fashion (most of it sucky) being made out there. There is no need to encourage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,1109,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-ip","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}