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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:31:41 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Dick Sidbury  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >>  Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> > > 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?   
   >> >   
   >> > Yes.  You're completely welcome to make your own new derivative work   
   >> > from the same source material Disney used.  Why should you get to the   
   >> > original materials they created?   
   >>   
   >> my point was that if perpetual copyright had existed from the beginning   
   >> of time then Disney would not have been able to create "The Little   
   >> Mermaid" and dozens of other works and thus society would be poorer.   
   >> Since Disney was able to do so they are, IMHO, ethically obligated to   
   >> allow others to build on their work after some suitable time.  I see an   
   >> ethical shade of grey when someone can use someone else's work to create   
   >> art but others can't use theirs.  It appears to me that you  and Jim   
   >> argue that what you create is absolutely controlled by you but see no   
   >> problem with using things that others might not have wanted you to use   
   >> if they or their heirs had been in a position to do something about it.   
   >   
   >By this reasoning, when you change the speed limit on a road and make it   
   >lower, everybody that ever drove faster than the new speed limit is   
   >ethically obligated to turn themselves in and pay a fine.   
      
   No, by this reasoning the speed limit should not be changed on a road   
   so that it becomes illegal to drive on it at any speed.   
      
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