Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 8:04:29 AM, you wrote: >> RC> As a content producer (although on a very limited basis), >> I make the >> RC> decision to share my works with others. However, if >> someone _forced_ me >> RC> to do it, I don't think I would like that very much. >> >> Well unfortunately for you, our founding fathers put into the >> Constitution that Congress shall only be able to secure inventors >> exclusive access to their respective writings, discoveries, etc for a >> limited time. I happen to agree with that wholeheartedly. I also >> disagree strongly that society as a whole would not benefit from >> materials that have had their copyrights extended becoming public >> domain. Historians if no one else are big benefactors.
RC> Don't scholars already have an exemption? You can use samples to do RC> research and use the samples in your final product. (FYI, I know some RC> aspects of the DCMA go against that - but we are talking about copyright RC> law in general, not that heap of trash. ;) Nothing prevents you from RC> studying Disney, or writing an essay that discusses Disney and their RC> works. Come on now. I could dig around for awhile and find some piece of art, a movie, a book, that was created by someone who died between 1932 and 1952 that would benefit someone somewhere that is living that we would both agree is beneficial for everyone to be freely available. I think the Gershwin example is a pretty good one though. I don't listen to classical, but why shouldn't that stuff be public domain? People will benefit from greater access to his works via compilations, free download from the internet, etc. Who knows, maybe a young musician will be inspired by the free mp3 he downloaded from some web site of Gershwin's music, or maybe Microsoft will make Win.Net's startup tune play a bit of his music :) Those could be positive effects for society as a whole imo. I think it really comes down to the same thing a lot of things do these days it seems, Corporate rights vs Individual rights. Something I don't think our framers thought much about, other than the fact that they definitely wanted all works to become property of the people after a period of time. There are some good links on the Eldred site about the intentions of the framers of the Constitution that I haven't read yet, otherwise I'd be able to argue my point better. :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
