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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:04:29 -0500, Jim Gysin    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Greg Goss sent the following on 10/29/2009 3:33 AM:   
   >> Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In terms of the bigger picture, it never ceases to amaze me when people   
   >>> fail to see the damaging effects of the disincentives that they're so   
   >>> willing to promote.  And it's not just as it relates to creative types,   
   >>> but to the best of the best in anything.  Few people will make an effort   
   >>> to stand out and produce great things if the end result is that a horde   
   >>> of ingrates steal their output or decide, by judicial thuggery, to tell   
   >>> them how much their efforts are worth in a "fair" society.  It's   
   >>> parasitism at its worst.   
   >>   
   >> I don't think that what happens a century from now to the title of a   
   >> work has much influence on the creator of that work.   
   >   
   >Not everyone in this thread is agreeing with you or me when it comes to   
   >what is a "reasonable" period of time.  There is certainly no consensus   
   >on your 100 years.  And beyond that, it gets back to the fact that, in   
   >my vision of a fair world, the courts would not be deciding what is   
   >"reasonable," either.  Instead, the free market would.   
      
   Under the free (which means _unregulated) market) people would be able   
   to copy any ideas they wanted.   
      
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