Heads up to all Bay Area CC-ers - next Monday, April 7th from 7PM to 8:30PM, Independent Arts & Media will be hosting a panel titled “Sampling & Fair Use”: Copyright Issues For Indie Producers. Our own Jennifer Yip will be on hand to discuss CC licenses and how to access open works online. Joining Jen will be entertainment lawyer George Rush and attorney Trevor Stordahl, with moderation from social architect Michael Vav. From IA&M:

“Sampling & Fair Use”: Copyright issues for indie producers

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You want to sample something in a video or song, borrow an image for an art collage, or use a vintage film clip in your act — and you wonder if the estate of Groucho Marx can sue you.

Come find our what’s “fair game” and what’s off-limits. When can you use work produced by other people and other organizations? How do you stay out of trouble? What are the limits and possibilities?

FEATURING:

– George Rush (George M. Rush Law Offices; adviser, Film Arts Foundation): Entertainment lawyer, film and video specialist

– Trevor Stordahl (Attorney at the Pranger Law Group)

– Jennifer Yip (Creative Commons): Using flexible licenses and accessing open work in the Internet era.

– Moderated by professional coach/social architect Michael Vav

Alternative title: "Interfaith idiots join terrorists as dhimmis to celebrate Mo's birthday."

The Muslims of the Americas (MOA), the name used by Jamaat ul Fuqra - a terrorist group operating in Pakistan and North America (Islamberg - in Hancock, New York), has been issued a permit for a public celebration that includes a parade that will run through the downtown area and close one lane of the city's main street:

... Jamaat ul Fuqra has more than 35 known or suspected communes in North America and more than 3,000 members spread across the United States, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence.

... The parade this Saturday will be the first one of its type in Binghamton. Following the parade, guest speakers will deliver speeches in front of the old Broome County Court-house. According to published accounts, the list of guest speakers includes the Rev. Douglas Taylor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton and Diane O'Heron, a professor at Broome Community College.

Sounds like a genuine interfaith lovefest is to go on after the terrorists' do their parade thingy, while the idiot Unitarian Universalists - dhimmis all - remain totally unaware that in Islam-speak, Interfaith = 1 Faith = Islam.

The image below illustrates what Muslims really think about Jesus:

However, the Rev. Douglas Taylor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton and Diane O'Heron, a professor at Broome Community College will go merrily on their way, blissfully unaware of their march to dhimmitude.

HT - Weasel Zippers

Other coverage: Jamaat ul-Fuqra Celebrates the Prophet's Birthday in Binghamton

Alternative title: "Interfaith idiots join terrorists as dhimmis to celebrate Mo's birthday."

The Muslims of the Americas (MOA), the name used by Jamaat ul Fuqra - a terrorist group operating in Pakistan and North America (Islamberg - in Hancock, New York), has been issued a permit for a public celebration that includes a parade that will run through the downtown area and close one lane of the city's main street:

... Jamaat ul Fuqra has more than 35 known or suspected communes in North America and more than 3,000 members spread across the United States, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence.

... The parade this Saturday will be the first one of its type in Binghamton. Following the parade, guest speakers will deliver speeches in front of the old Broome County Court-house. According to published accounts, the list of guest speakers includes the Rev. Douglas Taylor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton and Diane O'Heron, a professor at Broome Community College.

Sounds like a genuine interfaith lovefest is to go on after the terrorists' do their parade thingy, while the idiot Unitarian Universalists - dhimmis all - remain totally unaware that in Islam-speak, Interfaith = 1 Faith = Islam.

The image below illustrates what Muslims really think about Jesus:

However, the Rev. Douglas Taylor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton and Diane O'Heron, a professor at Broome Community College will go merrily on their way, blissfully unaware of their march to dhimmitude.

HT - Weasel Zippers

Other coverage: Jamaat ul-Fuqra Celebrates the Prophet's Birthday in Binghamton

"Asked under what conditions violence is permissible, more than 60% cited Western interference in a Muslim country, while 55% said offensive words or behavior was a trigger."

And Muslims are offended over Geert Wilders' film Fitna? Aren't they verifying Wilders points for him?

Link to story at Gateway Pundit.

Related: Where is the worldwide Muslim indignation over this film?

Obama may "claim" to be post racial, but in fact he has made race a center issue in his campaign and just may have done more to ignite racial tensions in America than any person or event in recent memory. This, juxtaposed with the fact that he is indeed the most liberal Senator in Congress (see record on issues here), makes it clear that Obama is not only far-removed from the mainstream of America and the true face of American life, he is also ignorant of certain Department of Justice statistics on Black crime and Black victims.

The painting of Blacks as victims of White America on the part of Obama, his wife, their pastor, and others, is not only not helpful to Black Americans, it just happens to be inaccurate. For 20 years, Barack and Michelle Obama have drank the poison Kool-Aid of Black theology, never seeing the real problem - a Black subculture of victimhood and street/ghetto culture. This makes Obama himself part of the problem.

As pointed out at Government Is Not Your Daddy, "African Americans who embrace the street/ghetto culture have defined themselves (and all African Americans) as victims, and perpetuate a subculture steeped in resentment and entitlement. People who define themselves as victims don't aspire to success, because they've already conceded failure and placed the blame on someone else:

Perceived victimization engenders resentment, which justifies a sense of entitlement. Instead of aspiring to rise higher with each successive generation, they sink deeper into the culture of poverty and recrimination, accepting the ghetto as their fate and entitlements as their due.

Participants in the street culture look down on those who work to achieve something better, sneer at education, and prey on those who live according to traditional values. They prey on each other, too. The street culture glorifies violence, drugs, and crime. It thrives on hatred -- hatred of whites, hatred of the country in which they live, hatred of other races, and hatred of other African Americans. It's a culture of self-victimization and false entitlement, and it will forever resist assimilation because its values are antithetical to the values of mainstream America.

This subculture, exploited by the media, and pandered to by black leaders, makes it much harder for those who want to rise up, who want to participate in the opportunities of mainstream American culture, and who want to leave a legacy of success for their children instead of a legacy of failure and resentment.

There is no question that African Americans have suffered from persecution and discrimination in this country. But, throughout human history, cultures have overrun, oppressed, abused, enslaved, and persecuted other cultures. (See What about the Jews?) That doesn't make it right. It's wrong. But history goes on. The survivors survive and adapt, and cultures change and evolve. But individuals don't succeed, and cultures don't evolve, by clinging to victimhood or by accepting/demanding entitlements to sustain the status quo. They survive, succeed, and evolve by overcoming and, by overcoming, becoming stronger.

As I've previously blogged, look at the years and years that the "Black victim" subculture has been wallowing in self-pity and victimhood (no disrespect meant to the great achievements of the great number of successful Blacks in America who have made great contributions to our country - BO and his wife, included), and failed to even come close to achieving the successes as a whole of the Asian, Indian, Arab, Cuban and the myriad other communities that have succeeded in American society - most of whom didn't even know our language when the began their pursuit of the American dream ?

Again, Barack and Michelle Obama, and every other Afro American that has drank the poison Kool-Aid of Black theology, Black nationalization, and Black victimhood, never seeing the real problem - a Black subculture of victimhood and street/ghetto culture - are themselves the part and parcel of the problem. Not White America and not anyone but themselves.

Much related: Ed Kaitz On 'Obama's Anger'

So much for the hysterical promotions of Earth Hour by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments; contrary to what they shrilled, there was no significant fall in power usage.

You can see comparative usage graphs here ...

So much for the hysterical promotions of Earth Hour by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments; contrary to what they shrilled, there was no significant fall in power usage.

You can see comparative usage graphs here ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical radical Islamic front group headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. Although CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims' civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims, CAIR is much more; it is nothing less than a large group of Islamists Fooling the Establishment (at least five of its employees and board members have been arrested, convicted, deported, or otherwise linked to terrorism-related charges and activities). Clearly, Americans need to continue to learn and become much more aware of CAIR's true intentions and make up. Steve Emerson's new report at IPT takes us several steps further toward that goal; here's part 6 in the series: CAIR Portrays 'War on Terrorism' as Malicious 'War on Islam' (HT - LGF).

[...] "The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself," CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed declared at Washington's National Press Club in July 2007.

But, in fact, CAIR officials and spokesmen have been peddling that same "new perception" ever since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They have portrayed virtually every intervening prosecution of an alleged terrorist who is Muslim and every investigation of an alleged terrorist front group as an insidious attack on their religion.

Today's sixth installment in IPT's detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group focuses on its protestations that the war on terrorism amounts to a war on Islam.

· CAIR and other Muslim groups issued a joint statement after the U.S. government froze the assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) in December 2001, warning that the action "could create the impression that there has been a shift from a war on terrorism to an attack on Islam." A CAIR press release issued the same month warned of "a drumbeat of anti-Muslim rhetoric from those who are taking advantage of the 9-11 tragedy to carry out their agenda of silencing our community and its leadership."

· When authorities arrested CAIR-Texas founding board member Ghassan Elashi and others charged with illegally sending computer equipment to Libya and Syria and engaging in financial transactions with a Specially Designated Terrorist, a CAIR-Dallas press release expressed concern that "these charges result from what appears to be a 'war on Islam and Muslims' rather than a 'war on terror.'" The group worried, "We, as American Muslims are facing an uphill battle in defending our own government's foreign policy, as well as the, so-called, war on terrorism, while being targeted by our own law enforcement agencies."

· Responding in June 2002 to a Department of Justice initiative to weed out suspected terrorists, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad asked, "What is next? Forcing American Muslims to wear a star and crescent as a means of identification for law enforcement authorities?"

· In a February 2003 press release, Awad complained of alleged religious and ethnic profiling by the FBI; that same month he remarked in an IslamOnline.net live dialogue, "Now we see extremists, including the Christian Right and the pro-Israel lobby, carrying out a coordinated campaign against Islam and Muslims. The result of this is clearly apparent from the racist policies and practices being carried out by some branches of the U.S. government influenced by these groups."

· At a January 2006 rally in Tampa in support of accused Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami Al-Arian, the Orlando Sentinel reported, "Awad said Al-Arian was the victim of a politically charged environment three years ago that resulted in the persecution of Muslims. 'Is this about what we did or what we are?' said Awad.... 'Most of these cases are done for political reasons.... I think the government is abusing the system.'"

Al-Arian was to plead guilty three months later to his PIJ involvement, and to admit he was "aware that the PIJ achieved its objectives by, among other means, acts of violence."

... · When FBI Director Robert Mueller asked citizens in 2004 to be on the lookout for seven Muslim terrorism suspects, Hooper termed Mueller's call "part of the 'round up the usual suspects' mentality," adding, "When you don't have any other leads, you gather up the Muslims."""

You can read the full installment - here ....

Related:
IPT Special Report *CAIR Exposed* Part Five
Jed Babbin
CAIR-full Democrats

The ambassadors of 26 Islamic countries want the Netherlands to investigate whether the film Fitna made by Dutch right-wing populist MP Geert Wilders can be banned, and have asked Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen whether it is possible to start legal proceedings against what they are calling an anti-Islam film. It seems that Muslims believe that the film insults "their" Prophet Muhammad and hurts the feelings of all Muslims.

However, what I find perplexing is how Muslims can possibly find Fitna anymore insulting to "their" Prophet and any more hurtful to their feelings than the "real" acts of terrorism shown in the film and those committed all around the world on a daily basis - ALL by Muslims - and overwhelmingly against their fellow Muslims. The film utilizes real images from real events in calling for Islam to reform itself, nothing is "made up."

How is it that Muslims themselves aren't condemning their fellow Muslims that consistently commit these acts of terrorism, hate, and intolerance, and instead focus all of their anger at a film about Islam that focuses on the very real need for Islam to be reformed and "rip out" those passages in the Quran that call for hatred, violence, and terror against unbelievers?

Meanwhile, in what demonstrably proves Geert Wilders points in making the film, Muslims were calling for Wilders' death long before the film was released, and such threats continue. The Internet host, LiveLeak, that first hosted the film initially caved-in to death threats to its staff, and has only today agreed to re-host the film.

One has to ask himself how is it so many non-Muslims fail to realize the true objective of the Islamists has nothing to do with interfaith dialog. It has only to do with "Interfaith = 1 Faith = Islam." The images we see in Wilders' film are not concocted, they are the actual images of Islamic terrorism, as are the images and reports that we see on our television screens and read about every single day.

See the movie, and see for yourself; the threat and horror of Muslim extremism is very real and growing, and the doomsday clock on the survival of Western civilization, and with it free speech and democracy, is ticking down - ever so quickly.

Fitna can be viewed here and here.

Related: Fitna the movie defeating Islamic censorship:

"... Nothing makes people want to see something more than banning it, or even better yet, telling them they may not be able to handle it ... . On that basis, the new film Fitna, must be pulling in internet viewers by the tens of millions."