The people communicating here have become an online intellectual community and should be allowed to ask for the rights that are due to any people, along the lines of Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people. Here at Yahoo Answers we volunteer our intellectual content without any kind of consent to the rules governing this forum (or is there such consent?) We may compose the most original ideas but at the end of the day still read at the end of the page: "Copyright © 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved" declaring clearly that our ideas do not belong to us. Is this the Orwellian "thought police" slowly and surreptitiously making its way into our lives or making us get used to it in this harmless and fun seeming way?
I call for a revolution against this system or let us start a new question-answer forum the content of which does not belong to a global corporation but to the people using it.
2006-12-13 08:55:08 · 7 answers · asked by psychologist 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If it's one thing that is consistent about this site, it's that everything put to a vote comes out absolutely wrong.
I am sick of getting banned. If put to a vote, however, I'd be on a "known terrorist" list to the FBI so fast, they would be knocking down the door 5 minutes later.
The last thing I need is the tyranny of THIS majority-- who are 90% fools. Of course I don't mean you. No, whoever is reading this is great. Look, smileys:
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2006-12-13 09:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here, here! And don't forget to check your modem for aliens.
No seriously though, you shouldn't worry about a copyright on ideas that you are releasing into in a public forum. If Yahoo doesn't steal your material, someone else will.
2006-12-14 04:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by RAh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh, let me get this straight. Yahoo funds the money for the space , technical support, employees and equipment and because they state they own this site it is some sort of Orwellian conspiracy?
well I vote yes and no!
2006-12-13 17:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that Yahoo! Answers would try to steal our ideas, so we can probably still use them for whatever we want.
2006-12-13 16:59:45 · answer #4 · answered by ♥iluvfoodnetwork♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thums Up!
2006-12-13 17:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by Conway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhhh.... O-kAaay....
You really need to cut back on the caffeine man.
2006-12-13 17:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get right on that and email me in a month or so and tell me how its goin....
2006-12-13 17:51:21 · answer #7 · answered by metroactus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋