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| Friday, January 27, 2006 |
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Get a badge for your blog! They tell us.
"Now is the time for all good bloggers to come to the aid of their legal rights!"
"Here at Electronic Frontier Foundation, we're fighting hard for bloggers' rights. We've created the Legal Guide for Bloggers, we're litigating the reporter's privilege for online journalists and we are working hard to defend bloggers' rights to free expression, political speech, and anonymity, just to name a few."
NOW................
I read about the incident where a certain Victor Komanyo took some of Thinkers ideas and blatantly flouted them as his own, and this got me thinking about intellectual property rights and copyright. So i went searching and found the above.
It turns out that blogging is fast becoming a platform for a lot of issues, some reaching national security (China). Ha! But in kenya.... still found nada, though am still searching.
This site claims that: (in no particular order, and am not so sure how this is reflected under kenyan I.T Policy.)
1. You Have the Right to Keep Sources Confidential:
(Shiroh, nice one on the journalists thing)
2. You Have the Right to Blog Anonymously.
(How would u know me if i front a fake identity? Who's reading this?)
3. You Have the Right to Make Fair Use of Intellectual Property
(Thinker, i feel u on the Victor Komanyo thing)
4. You have the Right to Allow Readers' Comments Without Fear
(and delete those punka@#ses who spam or send hate mail)
5. Bloggers have the right to political speech
(Lakini not in China, i read: there your A@# will be clapped faster than u can say "free")
I will continue with this topic as soon as i get more info, particularly on how some rights intersect with the kenyan laws. |
posted by Sammie @ 5:00 PM  |
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I concur..hijacking someone's ideas is not cool although I had no idea someone took Thinker's idea ..shame on the person.
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I feel happy everytym i hear about rights.But copyright protection is important..its very wrong for someone to copy your work for their economic gain.
Don't get me started on copyright issues,i can write a book.
And that Victor is a kumbaff considering he is in the Kenya blogsphere!
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I concur..hijacking someone's ideas is not cool although I had no idea someone took Thinker's idea ..shame on the person.