XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   I don't recall ever agreeing to copyright law.   
      
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