If it turns out that a city can "copyright" its skyline, I wonder whether God has "copyrighted" a rose ...
Lee --- In [email protected], Mike Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sounds far-fetched to me, but I do know that the national parks > now charge professional photographers and videographers a fee to > shoot in their boundaries and that companies can patent > naturally-occurring genes, so who knows what someone might try to do? > > I think U.S. copyright laws have changed from a way to protect a > creator's rights and to encourage creativity into a way to protect > corporate profits and discourage creativity. They need changing, but > corporate pressure continues to move them in the wrong direction. As > an example, Walt Disney lobbied successfully to extend copyright > protection duration a few years ago simply to protect Mickey Mouse > from becoming public domain. > > As video editors, we're in the middle where we'd like some protection > for our creations so we can make some money from them, but we'd also > like to be able to use others' creations -- like music and graphics > -- in our videos. I'm all for paying living creators for using their > creations, but it's discouraging to have to pay royalties to a > company to be able to use music written or recorded by a long-dead > musician. Those royalties do nothing to encourage the musician to > create more music. > > There comes a point in the life of any creation where it has rewarded > its creator amply and should become part of the public domain, a > building block that others can use in their own creations. U.S. > copyright law no longer supports that. > > Thanks for putting up with my soapbox rant, > > Mike Boom > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
