On 08/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The purpose of being good enough to satisfy the people that own the rights to the content - and therefore being able to release the content in this manner.
I also forgot to say: You implicitly elevate the people that own the rights to the content above the public. This isn't cool. "The copyright bargain places the public first: benefit for the reading public is an end in itself; benefits (if any) for publishers are just a means toward that end. Readers' interests and publishers' interests are qualitatively unequal in priority. The first step in misinterpreting the purpose of copyright is the elevation of the publishers to the same level of importance as the readers." - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
