Comments on: Intellectual Property — A Libertarian Critique http://c4ss.org/content/521 building awareness of the market anarchist alternative Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:08:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: ricketson http://c4ss.org/content/521/comment-page-1#comment-471 ricketson Wed, 20 May 2009 01:07:41 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=521#comment-471 Well gee, I don't know why I bothered commenting on "copyright communism" -- you've already said it all! Anyway, your comment on the "shrink wrap contracts" reminded me of a good essay at Heritage describing the implications of the mail fraud laws, and how they were enforced in the Ferrell-Kurtz case. When Art Becomes a Crime: A Case Study in Overcriminalization: http://www.heritage.org/research/legalissues/lm0039.cfm Well gee, I don’t know why I bothered commenting on “copyright communism” — you’ve already said it all!

Anyway, your comment on the “shrink wrap contracts” reminded me of a good essay at Heritage describing the implications of the mail fraud laws, and how they were enforced in the Ferrell-Kurtz case.

When Art Becomes a Crime: A Case Study in Overcriminalization:
http://www.heritage.org/research/legalissues/lm0039.cfm

]]> By: autocrat http://c4ss.org/content/521/comment-page-1#comment-456 autocrat Fri, 15 May 2009 18:32:31 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=521#comment-456 The indentation is perfectly clear most of the time, but was a hassle (for me) usually in places where the quoted material began or ended or overlapped page boundaries; in those cases, I found myself needing to visually scan down the page until I was able to detect indentation context; and every so often throughout the text, the indentation didn't begin correctly, so I developed an internal sort of paranoia... (c8= Scanning through again, I realize a helpful visual clue would be if the quoted text was indented on the right hand side also; and not only on the left - perhaps that would be a decent compromise between using italics - though it seems as though quotes wouldn't interfere with the readability of the text. Quoted and indented on both sides would be most immediately clear under all circumstances, I think; and provide helpful redundancy in the case of minor occasional formatting/indentation discrepancies. Obviously, these are just suggestions based on personal preference. Thanks so much for the, as always, excellent material! The indentation is perfectly clear most of the time, but was a hassle (for me) usually in places where the quoted material began or ended or overlapped page boundaries; in those cases, I found myself needing
to visually scan down the page until I was able to detect indentation context; and every so often throughout the text, the indentation didn’t begin correctly, so I developed an internal sort of paranoia… (c8=

Scanning through again, I realize a helpful visual clue would be if the quoted text was indented on the right hand side also; and not only on the left – perhaps that would be a decent compromise between using italics – though it seems as though quotes wouldn’t interfere with the readability of the text.

Quoted and indented on both sides would be most immediately clear under all circumstances, I think; and provide helpful redundancy in the case of minor occasional formatting/indentation discrepancies.

Obviously, these are just suggestions based on personal preference.

Thanks so much for the, as always, excellent material!

]]> By: Kevin Carson http://c4ss.org/content/521/comment-page-1#comment-449 Kevin Carson Fri, 15 May 2009 05:54:04 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=521#comment-449 Thanks for the catch, Charles. It's corrected now. Autocrat: I can't look at the pdf right now because all I've got here is an IBM Thinkpad with crappy old Windows 2000 (no pdf reader). But I used blockquoting with indentations--doesn't that make it readable enough? Oddly enough, I used to automatically put blockquotes in italics until a reader complained that made it harder to read. Thanks for the catch, Charles. It’s corrected now.

Autocrat: I can’t look at the pdf right now because all I’ve got here is an IBM Thinkpad with crappy old Windows 2000 (no pdf reader). But I used blockquoting with indentations–doesn’t that make it readable enough? Oddly enough, I used to automatically put blockquotes in italics until a reader complained that made it harder to read.

]]> By: autocrat http://c4ss.org/content/521/comment-page-1#comment-448 autocrat Thu, 14 May 2009 18:51:29 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=521#comment-448 Great article! Just a suggestion: it would be nice if the quoted sections were within actual quotes, or a different font. Great article!

Just a suggestion: it would be nice if the quoted sections were within actual quotes, or a different font.

]]> By: Kregus1 http://c4ss.org/content/521/comment-page-1#comment-447 Kregus1 Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:37 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=521#comment-447 Excellent! :) Excellent! :)

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