Re: [microsound] ideal copyright

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On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Kassen wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: john saylor <
>
>> if you could write the copyright legislation, what would it say?
>>
>> i'd say 5 years and then into the public domain. if it's about artists
>> instead of corporate assets, that's about as far as it goes. they need
>> to keep producing!
>>
>>

So you are telling me if you wrote a book, and 6 years later some 
hollywood producer turned it into a big hit, that you'd be fine with 
not getting a penny of the profits? Or that after struggling ones whole 
life in obscurity producing amazing stuff that was "ahead of it's time" 
it would be OK for someone else to eventually profit from ones own 
efforts, or that if you died a little sooner than you wanted, that you 
could not transfer that potential profit to your children or 
grandchildren?

I like copyright law. Sure it gets abused sometimes, by overzealous 
gorillas. And it gets ignored by  many people that sell work riddled 
with copyright violations. No one forces an artist to enforce the 
copyright of their own works, so if you don't care, then it doesn't 
matter. And if you use copyrighted material... you take your chances.

It's that simple®


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