[opendtv] Re: Wright Issues Call To Copyright Action


Craig Birkmaier wrote:

>
>Now is the time for the public to be heard, and for a return to the 
>Constitutional concepts of copyright and patents as the means to 
>rapidly move Intellectual Property into the public domain.
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By way of agreeing with you, I think you need to cast aside the habit of 
thinking of intellectual property as something that moves into the 
public domain someday. These rights belong to the public from the 
beginning.

I think it would be interesting to work out the consequences of tying 
the term of a copyright to the credited author's life, whether or not 
the copyright is assigned. If the author dies at an untimely age, let 
the monopoly expire early. Let authors build their legacies for their 
heirs by exploiting their monopolies while alive and passing on an 
estate built on the rents they collected.

I've also seen suggestions that renewal be required very frequently, so 
that if someone can't be bothered to renew, it must indicate that the 
commercial aspect has played out.


-- 
Mike Enright
mail: michaelt@xxxxxxxxxxxx AIM: enr Yahoo: michaeltenright
Beautiful Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California


 
 
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