Am I the onlyone who sees the irony here. An entity who has the ability to control what you can and can't read and ummm the book 1984
On 7/18/09, Alan Dayley <ala...@consultpros.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William > Wright<diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> It is this one, >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html >> >> Stallman, as usual, is right, even if (I think) for all the wrong >> reasons. Copyright is something that could not exist in a free society, >> the only way it can exist is through the coercion of government force, >> restricting you from doing otherwise lawful things with what you own as >> your property (In fact, even if there was no private property, >> government could still enforce intellectual property). Regardless of >> wither intellectual property should exist, it is of little doubt the >> power grabs by the government and long copyright terms are hurting the >> market for authors instead of helping. I don't know if Amazon would >> still have the right to take back books like they did (without studying >> property rights a bit more, I suspect 'they do but why would they want >> to?'), in any case I don't think that, without copyright as it is, they >> could have pulled it off (no pun intended har har har). At the very >> most, commercial pressures might have gotten them to do so, but another >> publisher would step up offering a better alternative, with no >> artificial hampering of the market by patent or copyright. >> >> I think with Washington, DC the way it is right now there is nothing >> standing in the way of even more copyright expansion (or government in >> general for that matter), like "database rights" in the European Union >> or a broad "workright" where you own the "right" to anything you invest >> time into and all derivatives (like making a copy of a public domain >> work). > > Thanks for finding the reference story. > > Alan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: gu...@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
