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Modified files: philosophy : bdk.html Log message: (Translations) Add 'de' Add class="lyrics" Fix em's with < > CVSWeb URLs: http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/bdk.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12 Patches: Index: bdk.html =================================================================== RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/bdk.html,v retrieving revision 1.11 retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12 --- bdk.html 24 Jul 2008 13:38:16 -0000 1.11 +++ bdk.html 1 Sep 2011 01:46:20 -0000 1.12 @@ -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:g...@gnu.org"><em>g...@gnu.org</em></a>. +<a href="mailto:g...@gnu.org"><g...@gnu.org></a>. 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