Nigel Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI Paul, > > I could read the Lessig article 100 times ... it doesn't change > the facts: > > * copyright law protects individual authors - first and foremost - > by protecting their intellectual output > > * copyright is instant, automatic, free, flexible (e.g., GPL) and > close to universal (Berne Convention). > > Nasty corporate interests don't negate these advantages. > > It's what authors do with these rights that's the 'main game' ... > corporations don't have ideas - people do.
You are aware of how close the US Recording Industry got to having music written while under contract to a record company reclassified as 'work for hire', ie work where the copyright belonged immediately and irrevocably to the record company concerned rather than the artist?
