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- StigNordas, on 11/26/2008, -0/+21That would be pretty creepy if the US Library of Congress demanded you submit your blog to them. I hope the bloggers win and keep their privacy and independence in Germany.
- stormofswords, on 11/26/2008, -0/+16Here's the law being talked about: Verordnung über die Pflichtablieferung von Medienwerken an die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, § 9 Weitere Einschränkungen der Ablieferungspflicht für Netzpublikationen: "Nicht abzuliefern sind . . . lediglich privaten Zwecken dienende Websites"
Basically, you don't have to provide private (read: personal) Websites to the National Library if you don't want to. I guess bloggers are upset because it doesn't say specifically "blogs". I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like any kind of 10,000 Euro penalty wouldn't hold any water at all and would probably just hurt the National Library's credibility in the long run. If the situation even approached a "give us or pay" situation though, German youth would take to the streets.
Womöglich könnte ein Deutscher das erweitern, was ich geschrieben habe. Ich befasse mich mit der Blog-community ganz und gar nicht und ich habe mir diese Verordnung nur flüchtig angeguckt. Vielleicht liege ich falsch, keine Ahnung. - Cglass, on 11/26/2008, -2/+16Germany has done crazier things in the past.
=| - cawpin, on 11/26/2008, -0/+10http://how-to-spell-ridiculous.com/
- leontes, on 11/26/2008, -3/+13Like what? Name one thing that the Germans have done that could be considered crazy.
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Yeah. - Y0tsuya, on 11/26/2008, -4/+13You vill give us ze information, ja?
- fabriciom, on 11/26/2008, -0/+7Pretty Crazy -> Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren
- inactive, on 11/26/2008, -0/+7It looks like the bloggers' fears -- though understandable -- won't come to fruition. Still, besides it being a threat to their privacy, it would be a huge pain in the butt for bloggers to submit their work in "archive-worthy" form, and it would probably be enough to turn some great bloggers off altogether.
- inactive, on 11/26/2008, -1/+7Why do you need to diculous again? Diculousing a second time would be ridiculous!
- laibixi, on 11/26/2008, -6/+10An American who has no idea about Germany making an absolutely stupid comment! This is mindblowingly unexpected!
Sorry!
Greetings from Germany! - Heiminator, on 11/26/2008, -1/+5putting angela merkel into office
- gilbes, on 11/26/2008, -0/+4Not sure how crazy that is. This very article is about the potential of the German government to demand their own use of original created works under threat of penalty. Here it starts with blog content. Once they establish that precedence, where does it end?
In the past governments have sought to control works created by their citizens. This is nothing new. Copyright protects everyone from these abuses, not just from other people, but from the government. - meruru, on 11/26/2008, -0/+3You went a bit crazy at the end there but I agree with you in principle. The same people that scream "***** the RIAA!" will go crazy when some Flickr member's photo is used in another publication.
- terrorpin, on 11/27/2008, -0/+2Privacy? If the content is on the internet it's hardly private in the first place.
- PopcornDave, on 11/27/2008, -0/+2But isn't the difference between the "***** the RIAA" and Flicker arguments that money generally isn't changing hands when downloading music but people are potentially profiting from other's Flickr works?
- laibixi, on 11/27/2008, -0/+1Sorry my lord!
- Wargasmic, on 11/26/2008, -2/+3A German who thinks he knows better than his American overlords?! That's mindblowingly unexpected!
- Ajzimm3rman, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1Dic.
- gilbes, on 11/26/2008, -4/+4This is a perfect example of one aspect of having IP laws that so few see any value in. Most just think of IP laws as, "its illegal for me to download *****, so what, ***** it." But when someone is granted limited time exclusive rights to their work as we do in the US, it means that entities like the government cannot force you or publish you to provide them with copies of those works.
In some Orwellian nightmare, governments could demand all peoples provide them with copies of all their created works under the threat of penalty. Copyright law is a protection against such things. Copyright is not solely the mechanism that "overpaid" artists use to acquire more wealth. - brandar, on 11/26/2008, -2/+2Big brother is making a strong showing on the front page this afternoon.
- byukid, on 11/26/2008, -12/+11Woah, the Germans doing something that people don't like? This is mindblowingly unexpected.
- diggdatt, on 11/26/2008, -8/+3I guess so Hitler's unknown great grandson can burn them all. :p
- gnarsman, on 11/26/2008, -6/+1that sounds pretty rediculous
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