On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 06:47 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > So, convenience, yay. I wish you luck with that campaign.
Which campaign? I thought we were having a discussion. > >> I'm sorry, but _who_ exactly are you saying is advocating abolition of > >> copyright? And what colour is the sky in their vicinity? > > > > Well, Karl Fogel [1, 2], for example, unless I've misunderstood him. > > FWIW, seems to me, you very much have. The nub of Karl's argument is > typified by this paragraph near 0the end of the first cited piece: > > The proprietary stream cannot survive forever, in the face of such > competition. The abolition of copyright law is optional; the real force > here is creators freely choosing to release their works for unrestricted > copying, because it's in their interests to do so. At some point, it > will be obvious that all the interesting stuff is going on in the free > stream, and people will simply cease dipping into the proprietary one. > Copyright law may remain on the books formally, but it will fade away in > practice, atrophied from disuse. That sounds like a statement about what might be likely to happen, rather than what ought to happen. From the second cited piece, starting from the very first sentence: > How bad is the current copyright system? Should we push for abolition, > or just radical reform? > > Both. Sounds like he's advocating abolition to me. Tim <>< _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss