In an absolutely stunning move the Supreme Court might have justified its existence with the Aereo ruling.\u00a0 Most citizens had lost hope and faith in the institution with their ruling allowing corporations to patent and extract license fees for genes existing naturally in humans in plants.\u00a0 They single handedly allowed corporate greed to eliminate public variety seed placing in jepordy the world food supply as population quickly approaches 9 billion.\u00a0 And let’s not forget the corporate sponsored ruling “money is speech.”\u00a0 That ruling has truly cleaned up politics…NOT!<\/p>\n
Much of that changed with the Aereo ruling.\u00a0 There is hope that the justices have finally returned to the human race.\u00a0 With the rise of the Internet came the rise of “piracy is okay” mentality.\u00a0 “Surf for everything, pay for nothing” has become the motto of far too many.\u00a0 Far too many companies have adopted the “steal what others create and sell it as your own” mentality as well.\u00a0 Aereo is just the latest in thinking they can get away with it.<\/p>\n
We now know exactly what the ruling will be when the case of Google scanning printed books which had\/have valid copyright in place at time of scanning, and placing them whole or in part on the Internet to both enhance the Google image and make money.\u00a0 They can claim “public good” and “service for the people” all they want, same as Aereo.\u00a0 It did not change the copyright law.\u00a0 You are not allowed to use copyrighted material on your “service” without obtaining permission\/license from the holder of said copyright.<\/p>\n
No author would be allowed to give 100% of Google’s advertising away without paying Google even one red cent no matter how much “public service” and “public good” we claimed raising awareness of our products would do.\u00a0 When you give away an author’s work for free you starve the author.\u00a0 Google would be the first to lawyer up if an author tried to starve them by giving away all of Google’s advertising revenue.<\/p>\n
Now is the time to push this case to the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Aereo “changed the form” from airwave to Internet without paying the copyright holder.\u00a0 Google “changed the form” from print to Internet without paying the copyright holder.\u00a0 It appears rather cut & dry to people who actually work for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"