[opendtv] Re: Wright Issues Call To Copyright Action
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:41:34 -0400
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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