[opendtv] Re: Wright Issues Call To Copyright Action
- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:33:43 -0800
Am I the only one that thinks that it is the height of irony that the _only_
reason we have copies of the earliest movies today is because the copyright
office
required that, in order to get a copyright, you had to deposit a hard copy print
of the movie with the copyright office. This meant printing the entire movie
out
on paper.
The wizards of Hollywood have been so aggressive in stamping out illegal copies,
and so incompetent at storing their own copies, that a huge fraction of early
movies have now gone up in smoke (literally) or decomposed into explosive dust.
They keep telling Congress about how valuable this stuff is -- _every_ item, no
matter how worthless, has the same copyright treatment, and (unlike patents)
there
are no fees to pay to keep up the copyright -- and yet they do nothing to
protect
these "valuable" assets.
At 10:56 AM 10/30/2004, Tom Barry wrote:
>I would agree, except that to grant any extensions, a digital
>non-encrypted copy should be required to be deposited for safe keeping
>with the Library of Congress. We have the technology to keep all this
>now and it would protect against copyright extension via DRM. The
>escrowed copies would become publicly available for reasonable cost
>after the copyright expired and they entered the public domain.
>
>- Tom
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