{"id":14792,"date":"2012-06-13T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=14792"},"modified":"2020-06-13T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T18:26:35","slug":"you-are-becoming-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2012\/06\/13\/you-are-becoming-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"You are (becoming) owned!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imagine not legally being able to sell your own stuff! Your grandmother’s designer rocker, your iPhone 6, your Stuff-a-bear at a garage sale, because the law grants the intellectual right’s holder the legal right to decide, how your used item is disposed of and at what price…!<\/p>\n

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WHICH ONE THING would you try to peddle in the street, if this law was passed – in a worldwide garage sale?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From an email received from Demand Progress<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Friends, I’m passing along this email from Demand Progress about an important upcoming Supreme Court case that affects all Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Please click here to tell Obama to side with Internet users and consumers — not with big business and Hollywood.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A few months ago Demand Progress —\u00a0joined by over 100,000 Internet users and a coalition of public interest groups<\/em>\u00a0— asked President Obama to take action and\u00a0protect consumers’ rights to resell their own things<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Supreme Court is currently\u00a0hearing a case (Kirstaeng v. Wiley)\u00a0that will decide whether you have the right to sell your iPod, books, and other goods on eBay and Craigslist —\u00a0or even at your own yard sale.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the entertainment industry lobbyists at the MPAA and\u00a0RIAA\u00a0have filed a brief in the Supreme Court mocking consumers’ concerns — just like they did during the SOPA Fight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These special interests admit that they want the Supreme Court to decide against the interests of ordinary Americans\u00a0and protect the music and film industries’ “ability to control entry into distinct markets.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You heard that right — Hollywood admits that controlling their CD and DVD markets is more important than consumer rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Click here to tell Obama and Congress to side with us — not with big businesses that want to control whether we can resell the things we own.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amazingly, the Obama administration agrees and has rejected the pleas of thousands of ordinary consumers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The White House’s solicitor general filed a legal brief rejecting our arguments and allowing big businesses to sue people for reselling their things online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Click here to tell Obama to withdraw his brief, and side with consumers — not big business.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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-Demand Progress<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Supreme Court will hear this case in a couple of weeks, so please get your friends involved right away:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you’re already on\u00a0Facebook<\/strong>,\u00a0click here to share with your friends.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re already on\u00a0Twitter<\/strong>, click here to tweet about the campaign:\u00a0Tweet<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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WHICH ONE THING would you try to peddle in the street, if this law was passed – in a worldwide garage sale?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

what is yours, may not be yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[330,2459,2456,2457,2458],"class_list":["post-14792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-ulydighed","tag-corporate-rule","tag-demand-progress","tag-intellectual-copyright","tag-ownership","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14794,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}