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Yavor Doganov |
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trans-coord/gnun/philosophy bdk.html |
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Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:10:14 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 11/09/01 18:10:14
Modified files:
gnun/philosophy: bdk.html
Log message:
Automatic sync from the master www repository.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/bdk.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
Patches:
Index: bdk.html
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RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/bdk.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- bdk.html 2 Aug 2009 18:10:17 -0000 1.7
+++ bdk.html 1 Sep 2011 18:10:13 -0000 1.8
@@ -7,76 +7,58 @@
by Timothy R. Phillips</cite>
</p>
-<p>
-Come all you brave songwriters, and listen unto me,<br />
+<div class="lyrics">
+<p>Come all you brave songwriters, and listen unto me,<br />
I'll tell you of a man who fought all for our liberty.<br />
With nothing but a web site and a stout heart in his breast,<br />
-he fought the Disney company and the greedy Gershwin Trust.<br />
-</p>
+he fought the Disney company and the greedy Gershwin Trust.</p>
<p>
It wasn't many years ago, in nineteen and seventy-eight,<br />
they added nineteen years onto the term of copyright;<br />
then said the movie barons and the proud high-lords of song,<br />
-“our copyrights will suit us well if they can last this long.”<br
/>
-</p>
+“our copyrights will suit us well if they can last this long.”</p>
-<p>
-But when the nineteen extra years were nearly past and done,<br />
+<p>But when the nineteen extra years were nearly past and done,<br />
those same proud barons then returned with cash to Washington.<br />
“We want another twenty years, we hate the public domain.<br />
-And here's some cash that you can use to fund your next campaign.”<br />
-</p>
+And here's some cash that you can use to fund your next campaign.”</p>
-<p>
-Then up spoke Dennis Karjala in Arizona's land,<br />
+<p>Then up spoke Dennis Karjala in Arizona's land,<br />
“Rise up, rise up my merry men! for we must take our stand<br />
all for the Constitution, or the lords of copyright<br />
-will steal away our books and music in their haughty might.”<br />
-</p>
+will steal away our books and music in their haughty might.”</p>
-<p>
-Then up rose Dennis's merry men, they gathered to his cause:<br />
+<p>Then up rose Dennis's merry men, they gathered to his cause:<br />
The wise man Peter Jaszi, well learned in the laws;<br />
and Mary Brandt, the valiant maid from Mississippi's land,<br />
-with a hundred alligators that all wait on her command.<br />
-</p>
+with a hundred alligators that all wait on her command.</p>
-<p>
-“Oh Congressmen, you are deceived! the lords of Hollywood<br />
+<p>“Oh Congressmen, you are deceived! the lords of Hollywood<br />
have made you to forget your oath to serve the common good.”<br />
“Hush you, Dennis Karjala, your egghead words are rash.<br />
-We'll listen to the film-lords, and to their ready cash.”<br />
-</p>
+We'll listen to the film-lords, and to their ready cash.”</p>
-<p>
-“Alas for us, my merry men! the Congress is beguiled,<br />
+<p>“Alas for us, my merry men! the Congress is beguiled,<br />
the public domain is put to nought, and freedom is reviled.<br />
Now let us warn the people with a web-page on the net.<br />
-Though our proud foes are mighty, perhaps we'll beat them yet.”<br />
-</p>
+Though our proud foes are mighty, perhaps we'll beat them yet.”</p>
-<p>
-Now Dennis posts his web-page on a node in cyber-space<br />
+<p>Now Dennis posts his web-page on a node in cyber-space<br />
and Mary Brandt with her alligators back in her own place,<br />
launches a web-wide mailing list where messages will run,<br />
-that the evil that the song-lords plan might somehow be undone.<br />
-</p>
+that the evil that the song-lords plan might somehow be undone.</p>
-<p>
-The President sits in his house with an Intern at his feet,<br />
+<p>The President sits in his house with an Intern at his feet,<br />
and a Congresswoman comes to him with words so honey-sweet.<br />
The President, he signs the bill: for twenty years more by law,<br />
-song-barons will suck the public's life into their greedy maw.<br />
-</p>
+song-barons will suck the public's life into their greedy maw.</p>
-<p>
-“Alas for us, my merry men, alas for the public domain.<br />
+<p>“Alas for us, my merry men, alas for the public domain.<br />
The people's right is thrown aside all for the film-lords' gain.<br />
But let us fight on 'til the day the barons in their greed<br />
-are cast down from their seat, and song and letters will be freed.”<br />
-</p>
-
+are cast down from their seat, and song and letters will be freed.”</p>
+</div>
<p>
<i>Copyright © 2000 by Timothy R. Phillips. The author thanks Peter
Jaszi, Mary Brandt Jensen, and Dennis Karjala for allowing him to portray
@@ -95,12 +77,12 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -113,7 +95,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/08/02 18:10:17 $
+$Date: 2011/09/01 18:10:13 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -137,6 +119,8 @@
<ul class="translations-list">
<!-- Arabic -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/bdk.ar.html">العربية</a> [ar]</li>
+<!-- German -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bdk.de.html">Deutsch</a> [de]</li>
<!-- English -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/bdk.html">English</a> [en]</li>
<!-- French -->
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