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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   SFTVratings sent the following on 10/26/2009 2:18 PM:   
   > On Oct 26, 1:55 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >> SFTV_troy sent the following on 10/25/2009 5:11 PM:   
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   >>> This is why copyright needs to be shortened to 28 years as was true in   
   >>> the first U.S. Copyright Act of 1790.  Let culture be free.   
   >> If it's freedom you seek, I'm pretty sure that artists are already free   
   >> to forfeit their intellectual property rights any time they want to.  Of   
   >> course, they're also free to earn a living from their creativity   
   >   
   > Yes.  But they have no "right" to claim exclusive right to an idea   
   > that has passed into my possession,   
      
   Of course they do if it's part of the sale or lease agreement.  Your   
   only moral and ethical choice is to accept those terms or walk away,   
   both of which you have the right to do.  You certainly aren't acting   
   morally or ethically if you somehow take possession illegally (your   
   choice of phrasing speaks volumes, BTW) and/or then violate the terms by   
   which you were granted possession in the first place.   
      
   [Rest of self-serving justification for acting immorally and unethically   
   snipped.]   
      
   --   
   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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