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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:30:03 -0500, Jim Gysin    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Frank Frank sent the following on 10/29/2009 10:34 AM:   
   >> Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>>  Ian Galbraith  wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:26:56 -0700, Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>>>> In article <7kqiaeF3aemvbU2@mid.individual.net>,   
   >>>>>  Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >>>>>> Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Again, you're completely free to do Snow White.  You're completely free   
   >>>>>>> to do Alladin.  You're completely free to do what Disney did; create   
   >>>>>>> your own version of those stories.  And your version will be protected.   
   >>>>>> And WHY are we completely free?  We're free because the creativity   
   >>>>>> that created them became an open part of our society.  The copy rights   
   >>>>>> of those creators expired, and a richer society resulted from that   
   >>>>>> happening.   
   >>>>> Nope.   
   >>>> Please explain.   
   >>> No part of his set up was correct.  Those creators never had copyrights   
   >>> to begin with.  Nothing expired.  No richer society resulted from those   
   >>> things happening, because none of them happened to begin with.   
   >>   
   >> You're attacking a technicality. The point stands. Our culture is richer   
   >> because we can build on works that either weren't copyrighted to begin   
   >> with, or the copyright expired. The culture of 100 years from now won't   
   >> be thus enriched unless copyright is eliminated or at least cut back   
   >> down to size.   
   >   
   >So you're only downloading things illegally   
      
   Why are you assuming that he's downloading things illegally?   
      
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