On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:35, District Webmaster wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/07/03 1:21 PM >>> > >. . . resists the urge to post unecessary inflammatory material . . . > > lol. > > Despite our collectively demonstrated inability to resist impassioned > debates -- and despite the fact that many of us have agreed, > voluntarily, > to cool our heels a bit today, I'd like to post a question to the > group. I'm not trying to prove a point; I'm not trying to bait anyone. > I was discussing this topic with a friend of mine today and he posed the > question to me -- it caused me to reconsider my position that > copyright should end with a creator's life, largely because I > couldn't think of an answer to it. > > His question was: what difference is there between a creator's right > to chis own work, and other property rights?
Possibly none, but I think it's hard to compare the two. > The implied question, > of course, is what difference is there between a book I write and sell, > and a doll house I make for my daughter? If someone has the right to > take > control of my creative work from me, should they then be able to take > my daughter's doll house? If you sell that doll house, the person who buys it can do anything they want with it. If you hold on to it, then you are right, nobody has any right to take it away. So maybe the question to ask is, if you sell the book, why do you expect to have any control over it once you sell it? This may be an over simplification of things, but that is why I said it's hard to compare the creator's right to his own work and property rights. > ... > The implied question here is, can the group engage in a discussion with > differing ideas without decending into pettiness? :) Additionally, I > think this might actually be a good argument for forums -- while most > of us do not prefer them, and they're not suited to many discussions, > they might well be suited to long-running and oft-debated > topics that some of the group wish to pursue, but of which others > of the group have grown weary. > > Your thoughts? Hmm, well I don't know, I probably shouldn't have even answered this today, I don't think it's a flame, but how on-topic is it? Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
