Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[Andrew Simpson <deathspresso@yahoo.com>]

--- don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Thu, 5/15/08, Tommy Tyrberg
> <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Tommy Tyrberg
> <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>
> > Subject: SV: Knight and Public Domain
> > To: mike@indexdata.com, "'jrc'"
> <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
> > Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 1:42 PM
> > I completely agree that that the current copyright
> laws are
> > absurd. One
> > just has to compare with patent law to realise how
> > grotesque they are.
> > Now if patent laws were the same as copyright law,
> in most
> > of the World
> > the Wright Brothers' patent on aircraft would
> still
> > have 10 years left
> > on it.
> > 
> > Now it is not immediately obvious to me that e. g.
> playing
> > a tune is
> > intrinsically a more demanding or worthy pursuit
> than
> > inventing the
> > aeroplane. 
> 
> Uh, strongly disagree. Unlike Wright's aircraft,
> there is no 'greater good' argument to justify
> ripping off Knight or his heirs (for example). What,
> the progress of civilization requires that people be
> able download a song for free?

No one wants to rip off his heirs but profiting from
something you didn't help create 70 plus years after
the death of he who did create it is ridiculously
excessive. Ten years would be reasonable. 

>  
> > As a matter of fact about the only field where it
> does seem
> > that longer
> > monopol rights might be desirable is patents on
> drugs. It
> > is generally
> > recognized that the dearth of new antibiotics is
> at least
> > partly due to
> > the fact that the patent period is too short to
> recoup the
> > massive
> > development and testing costs.
> > 
> > Tommy Tyrberg   
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Fr�n: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu
> > [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] F�r Mike
> > Taylor
> > Skickat: den 15 maj 2008 15:05
> > Till: jrc
> > Kopia: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > �mne: Re: Knight and Public Domain
> > 
> > jrc writes:
> >  > I sit on a Board that derives part of its
> income from
> > some of the
> >  > copyrights of the author Robert A. Heinlein. 
> > Pirating of his works
> >  > is a considerable problem.  Personally, I would
> > prefer that
> >  > copyright laws be more stringent rather than
> less.
> > 
> > Unfortunately (for both of us), personal
> preferences
> > aren't important
> > here.  What should be important is the intention
> of the
> > framers of the
> > constitution and the Supreme Court.  What is
> actually
> > important is the
> > preferences of the massive media conglomerates who
> fund
> > legislation.
> > 
> >  _/|_
> >
>
___________________________________________________________________
> > /o ) \/  Mike Taylor    <mike@indexdata.com>
> > http://www.miketaylor.org.uk
> > )_v__/\  "Fussing and flapping in priestly black
> > like a murder of crows"
> >      -- Sting, "All This Time"
>