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<eventtime>2006-03-17 12:04:00</eventtime>

<logtime>2006-03-17 17:15:42</logtime>

<subject>The Day The Dreams Died</subject>

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December 8, 2005. A day that will live in infamy. There is a popular saying. "You cannot kill an idea!" So they say. They are wrong. Technology and the human mind are amazing tools, and when put to use for creatively destructive purposes, even things that you thought were free were not. You now buy air. You buy water. Even the genes IN YOUR OWN BODY have been patented. But up until now you at least had your dreams. Enter Andrew Knight, the thief of dreams, and creator of the first <a href="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw303435.htm">Story Patent</a>. <lj-cut>In a nutshell, Andrew Knight came up with the idea of PATENTING a story rather than copy writing one. He has not written anything. He has not filmed anything. He has not recorded anything. In short, he has, in no wise or form created anything useful for society save the IDEA for a mediocre plot idea but, he has also created a process by which any artist that desires to create something creative in the future will now have to file their idea with the US patent office. There was no law passed. No judge sat in judgment of this. No executive order made this work. A quiet bureaucrat in the US Patent Office quietly took away the right of anyone but corporations and the rich to have dreams and do anything with them in a shared public format for profit (potentially at all). The right to write your novel and earn money from it. The right to paint your picture and earn money for it. Make no mistake, Andrew Knight, the pirate of Hope, the raper of the collective unconcious is fencing in the last hope for the dreamer. It costs, on average, thousands upon thousands of dollars to file a patent. This was done deliberately on the part of Andrew Knight, not just for his own idea, but to steal the ideas of others. He is asking others to approach him so he can file a patent to protect your idea. Unless you have thousands of dollars, you can't write a novel. Unless you have thousands of dollars, you can't write the story of your own life, because someone else might patent it, or their life might be similar enough to your own. Unless you have thousands of dollars to pay a lawyer to go through all existing patents, you will not be able to write a STORY OF YOUR OWN LIFE. While there was initial outrage last November, this issue has died based on my limited research. I heard about it last night from a friend of mine, but there is not any accessible talk balks about this, no politician is enacting legislation to stop it, and the populace at large cares nothing about it. Patent law is insidious and slowly but surely has become more corrupt and wicked to the point that you can patent anything. And because there is big money in it, patent law has been given teeth and judicial precedent to the point that only a specifically targeted legislative act can stop it. Even the people who are complaining are not writing their congressmen as near as I can tell, and I have, as I have stated before never convinced anyone of anything. Your dreams are for sale. You just lost them. Unless you do something about it. You and a whole lot more people like you. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this, but it has to be something beyond just writing my congressman. This is big....and I'm not going to let it go by without a fight.</lj-cut>

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