Trigger

Once again, this is a metaphor for copyrights & restrictive licenses – especially “reserving” “rights” even though you “won’t enforce them.” For Terry Hancock, who hopefully will explain more in the comments.

September 1st, 2011 Fear, IP, Law

5 comments to Trigger

• Bill Benzon

  September 1, 2011 at 6:52 am · Reply

  It strikes me as a comment on fair use. It’s such a vague notion that we just have to trust the copyright holders won’t abuse it out of existence. Which, of course, they’ve been doing.

• Todd S.

  September 1, 2011 at 9:33 am · Reply

  I see this as a metaphor for all types of power that one person can hold over another.

• yonemoto

  September 4, 2011 at 7:35 pm · Reply

  Well, Todd – if you have money-power, the only way to use this power is to divest yourself of it to another person – which at least in the short run ultimately results in your having a little bit less money-power, so that’s fundamentally different.

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• Tamfang

  November 24, 2011 at 6:48 pm · Reply

  I wonder what fraction of male US citizens, born in 1960 and after, trust “our” government enough to sign up for the military slavery that will never happen, in order to scare Brezhnev out of Afghanistan.