[opendtv] Re: Wright Issues Call To Copyright Action
- From: Mike Enright <menright1@xxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:52:07 -0700
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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