> > NYT's current obsession (albeit, widely shared) with music and film
> > "copyright," and crypto-enhanced intellectual property protection.
Secret Squirrel suggested:
> Copyright is a short-lived aberration (60-70 years ?), and
> technology is finally dealing with it.
Ummmm. Check out Section 8 of the US Constitution.
1787.<http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data/constitution/articles.html>
For that matter, dig up a reference to the 1710 Statute of Anne in the
UK, and the British Parlament's more explicit Copyright Law of 1740.
British copyright, and twined concept of "public domain," was widely
considered a precondition, or at least enormously helpful in ushering in
the Age of Reason.
_Vin
> Copyright is going away, and of course that industries that
> capitalized on it will fight all the way, but it doesn't look as if
> they are achieving anything, as far as private use goes.
>
> Copyright will continue to exist where brick-and-mortar entities are
> concerned (if you don't pay royalty we come and burn you down.)
>
> That is, unless analog recording equipment is criminalized and
> exterminated (illegal possession of a microphone - 5 years.
> Possession of a microphone while committing a copyright crime - 10
> years.)
>
