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From: jimgysin@geemail.com
Anim8rFSK sent the following on 10/26/2009 4:17 PM:
> In article ,
> Jim Gysin wrote:
>
>> SFTV_troy sent the following on 10/25/2009 5:11 PM:
>>> On Oct 25, 6:01 am, aemeijers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Shrug. If they don't wanna sell, you have no right to buy. May be
>>>> annoying, but hardly evil, and they are well within their rights.
>>>
>>> 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 if they
>> so choose. And in return, you're free to respect their respective choices.
>>
>>> Besides
>>> there is not natural right to an idea. Nature abhors the very idea of
>>> keeping thoughts confined. As I can use my candle to light your
>>> candle, without diminishing my own light, so too can ideas be shared.
>> But someone had to have lit the first candle, or you and all of your ilk
>> would still be sitting in the dark, waiting for your chance to be
>> parasitic with regard to the light.
>>
>>> The current 105 year span (likely to be expanded again by Disney
>>> lobbying) is ridiculous.
>> Why? Because it's not what you want?
>
> Yeah, I fail to see how society benefits by non creatives being able to
> steal other's work.
We probably both already know that it has nothing to do with benefiting
society and everything to do with benefiting the selfish and
self-serving SFTV_troys and Frank Franks of the world.
--
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
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