Creationists Violating Copyright

The_Rook writes "The Discovery Institute, more a lawyer mill than a scientific institution, copied Harvard University's BioVisions video 'The Inner Life of the Cell,' stripped out Harvard's copyright notice, credits, and narration, inserted their own creationist-friendly narration, and renamed the video 'The Cell As an Automated City.' The new title subtly suggests that a cell is designed rather than evolved."

It was planned.

[badran]

Harvard was created so that they would be able to copy it. You know part of a bigger plan.

seen printed in the cell DNA....

[ross.w]

(C)Copyright 4000BC God
All rights reserved
Reproduction other than by the means provided for in your licence agreement is prohibited

My alternative theory...

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't it make more sense to believe that Harvard stripped out the creastionist commentary from the video and slapped on a copyright notice? It would be far too complex to edit a Harvard video to add commentary, thus I must go with this simpler explanation and blame Harvard.

Harvard Can't possibly have copyright

[DullTrev]

God created everything.

If the Creationists keep this up...

[Asterra]

I'll probably go broke from the number of times they'll force me to watch Golden Compass, just to make them unhappy.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

*in mr burns voice*

Oooh, a lawsuit from "harvard"

What are they going to do, row us to death?

Oh no, I'm so scared!

So...what you're saying is

[Weaselmancer]

...the film was originally intelligently designed. Then it evolved.

Re:Harvard Can't possibly have copyright

[flyingfsck]

Hmm, does that explain "In God We Trust"?

Oblig. M.C. Hawking

[Ethanol-fueled]

Fuck the creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
every time I think of them, my trigger finger itches,
They want to have their bullshit...taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould [wikipedia.org] should put his foot right up their ass! ...

What to choose...

[fahrbot-bot]

Creationists stealing from scientists because they cannot intelligently design their own presentation? The Discovery Institute unable to discover anything on their own? Ignoring morality as a means to their own creation? Dishonest lawyers? (OK, that last one's obvious.)

What to choose, what to choose...

Re:Look for the double standard.

[dotancohen]

The difference is, that the average downloader is not changing the words a little then claiming the work as their own. Those people are called "rap artists".

Re:Slashdot is now KDawson's soapbox

[Foobar of Borg]

KDAWSON IS A FUCKING BITCH AND A CUNT

I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:On which day did God create Cells?

[Asterra]

I don't know. Personally, I never found their point of view worth a whole paragraph of refutation. A few choice sentences of general derision will always suffice.

Removing logo good thing?

[Keruo]

Isn't it better that they removed the logo?
Otherwise it might appear to some person watching that the ramblings were actually created by harvard.

Why oh why

[headkase]

They are obviously blinding themselves to the true nature of the Universe! God didn't create it, we did about 7.2 million years from now! And I can't believe nobodies brought up the instrument of the creation, his noodly appendage himself!

Re:It was planned.

[loganrapp]

Doesn't fair use handle satire?

Re:It was planned.

[Joebert]

It all makes sense now.

God didn't create the world, God stole the Devils' science project !

Re:It was planned.

[Opportunist]

You know, suddenly MS, DRM and the Bush administration start to make a lot of sense.

Re:It was planned.

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, Jesus copied bread and fish for over 5,000 people and didn't give a shit about bakeries' and fishermens' lost profits or copyrights.

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Re:It was planned.

[orasio]

Yeah but according to the cult of the FSM pirates are cool and the lack of them is causing global warming. They're just being pirates in order to combat global warming!

It's not a cult, Pastafarianism is a rrrreligion.
Arrrrrrrr!

Re:So, only 29 years left?

[maxwell demon]

(C)Copyright 4000BC God

Considering that current law states that copyright is valid until 70 years after the author's death, that copyright will expire in 2036 [time.com].

Of course, since there's this other person [wikipedia.org] who also died in 1966, the copyright period will probably be extended before it expires.

Well, since Jesus is God, Jesus died when crucified at some time around the year 30, and the copyright law doesn't state that copyrights are reinstated on resurrection, the copyright has expired long ago.

Re:seen printed in the cell DNA....

[Opportunist]

Actually it's 4000BCS. Before common sense.

Re:It was planned.

[maxwell demon]

You know, Jesus copied bread and fish for over 5,000 people and didn't give a shit about bakeries' and fishermens' lost profits or copyrights.

What do you think was the real reason why he was crucified?

Re:It was planned.

[leenks]

No, Jesus just had a royalty-free licence to use his father's patents.

Re:It was planned.

[morcego]

I don't know, but I'm game for any religion where you can eat your idols, as long as you can have a nice Chianti with it.

Thank you letter

[brennz]

Dear Slashdot community,

The Discovery Institute would like to thank you for raising the visibility of our organization and our fight for justice. For many years we have fought to enable creation theory in the classroom alongside evolutionary theory. Your efforts have assisted us greatly in getting the word out on our issues. It is important to acknowledge that for too long, Christians have lacked legal representation. Now our law firm 'The Discovery Institute' fights for them in the courtroom. We would like for everyone to think of us as like the MPAA/RIAA, but motivated instead by "heavenly profits".

Sincerely,

Fun. D. Mental
Esquire
Director of Outreach
The Discovery Institute

* disclaimer - I love the potential for satire in this situation but I think darwinian evolution is a seriously flawed theory *

Re:On which day did God create Cells?

[Opportunist]

It's like in the Simpsons episode where Xena explains the continuity goofs in Xena, "Whenever you see a continuity mistake, a wizard did it".

Now replace wizard with God and you're set.

DO IT AGAIN!

[DynaSoar]

Get the DI version. This time give it a narration about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, and name it something like "Free Sex Money" so that everybody downloads it. Credit it to the Descovery Instantoot to make it obvious (at least to DI) where it was taken from. Add a text file to the torrent saying what was done and why.

Since it's making fun of an existing work (whether stolen or not) it's a parody, and so protected as free speech from both Harvard and DI.

Re:It was planned.

[Anonymous Coward]

Devil: Moooom, God stole my science project & told everyone it's his !
God: What are you talking about, science doesn't even exist !
God & Devils' Mom: Honey, does science exist ?
God & Devils' Dad: Hell if I know, I've been out of school for 65 million years. Satan, quit tattling on your brother like a little bitch !
Devil: I'll show all of you !


And that boys & girls is where we came from. The Devil created us, God stole credit, & the Devil's been acting like a little bitch about it ever since.

Beaker speaks!

[NIckGorton]

I used to work in a microbiology lab which worked on vaccine research. I can't think of anything I did there on a day-to-day basis there, or really anything anyone did there, required anything that vaguely resembled an understanding of modern evolutionary theory.

Does it require evolutionary biology to do grunt lab work, run gels, grow cultures per recipe, etc? Not at all. Does it require evolutionary biology to understand how pathogens evolve to better invade hosts and evade their immune systems. Does it require evolutionary biology to understand how organisms evolve to better protect themselves from those? Yes. In fact, TFA was written by someone who studies that very thing. But if you were someone who actually did research in immunology, virology, and vaccine research you would know that.

However if your contribution in the lab was as a tech running the experiments that people like the author of TFA designed, I could easily see why you wouldn't catch that link. So your bad there... but hey, awesome job showing yourself to be an ignorant tool who thinks he can argue vaccine science because he once had a summer job washing glassware and running the autoclave in a lab near folks who understand it. Just because the lab where you worked did research that doesn't mean you did.

And it shows.

Re:It was planned.

[kramulous]

It's not a cult, Pastafarianism is a rrrreligion.

Can somebody please tell me why I read that in Futurama's Nixon Head Voice?

Cast the First Stone

[StonePiano]

Let he who has never violated copyright cast the first post.

Oh, too late.

Re:It was planned.

[KDR_11k]

So, Christianity it is, then?