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   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:15:00 -0500, Jim Gysin wrote:   
      
   > Ian Galbraith sent the following on 10/27/2009 9:06 PM:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >> No-one in this thread is saying get rid of copyright.   
   >   
   > You're wrong there.   
      
   OK FrankFrank/Seamus is saying that but he's the only one.   
      
   >> By the time its out   
   >> of copyright there are other considerations like allowing others to use   
   >> cultural icons to produce their own culturally enriching works and   
   >> allowing competitive forces to ensure the works in question are still   
   >> available in some form.   
   >   
   > If their new works can't stand on their own and need to benefit from the   
   > work of others who preceded them, then they should pay for the right to   
   > the predecessor's work, as their own work is obviously not good enough.   
      
   Like I said to Fred using cultural icons can give a work a resonance it   
   would otherwise lack even using created characters as close as possible   
   to the original. Its not non-artistic to use them in interesting ways.   
      
   [snip]   
      
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   "He gets down to the end of his life and he looks back and decides that   
   all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life   
   because they made him who he was.  All those years he was happy, you   
   know, total waste.  He didn't learn a thing." - Little Miss Sunshine   
      
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