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 <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William
> Wright<diamondmagic@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:
guest@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
(text/plain)