Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2002 12:55 AM
...asking them about copyright's "limited time" concept. In the letter, I of curse questioned why the "limited time" is so stacked in favor of the likes of Disney and Time/Warner and the big publishing houses.
But I also asked them this: what happens when a copy-protected work *does* go into the Public Domain?
Frankly, my guess is that the greedy pigs that support this stuff won't be remembered 200 or 300 years from now, while those of us who believe in openness and freedom will. It always struck me that the recording industry moguls never seem to give all that much support for novel musical ideas. Maybe the new-idea musicians and composers should steer clear of them, and band together to support open distribution of their works.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2002 12:55 AMBut I also asked them this: what happens when a copy-protected work *does* go into the Public Domain?
Frankly, my guess is that the greedy pigs that support this stuff won't be remembered 200 or 300 years from now, while those of us who believe in openness and freedom will. It always struck me that the recording industry moguls never seem to give all that much support for novel musical ideas. Maybe the new-idea musicians and composers should steer clear of them, and band together to support open distribution of their works.
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