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   From: DrJamesSidbury@hotmail.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Do you think it's fair that Disney used fairy tales which were public   
   domain and now wants to have complete control over these derivative   
   works in perpetuity?   
      
   How would you feel if copyrights were severely limited in scope if the   
   work were derived from some previous work that was public domain?   
      
   dick   
      
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