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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   James Sidbury sent the following on 10/28/2009 8:43 PM:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Society's interest" be damned.  Society has no claim on me in this   
   >> regard.   
   >   
   > Society invented the concept of copyright.  So if you copyright your   
   > works you are accepting what copyright says.   
      
   The word "duress" comes to mind, along with the realization that a   
   certain, unacceptable level of protection is better than no protection   
   at all.   
      
   > If the copyright laws   
   > change then you can choose in the future not to copyright your works and   
   > use your own rules which will probably mean you will not make your IP   
   > publicly available.   
      
   At which point, the cheapskates of the world will have won at the   
   expense of artists and the people who would have otherwise been willing   
   to support those artists.  That's not exactly what I call a good or fair   
   outcome.   
      
   --   
   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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