[opendtv] Re: Wright Issues Call To Copyright Action

At 9:32 PM -0400 10/28/04, Tom Barry wrote:
>I forget the details but after the printing press was invented one
>company in England (not Gutenberg) was awarded a monopoly on printing
>that lasted for about a hundred years.  It was only after they strongly
>lobbied to also control all book importing that there was a political
>backlash and they lost it.

it took several hundred years to get this genie back in the box. But 
by the turn of the 20th century, a handful of powerful newspaper 
publishers, with help from the politicians,  pretty much had regained 
control over the flow of information to the masses.

>This cycle may repeat.  ;-)

One can see the indications that the entrenched media moguls may 
indeed be losing their grip on the flow of information.

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.

Regards
Craig
 
 
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