> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Tomlinson > Sent: 09 October 2009 12:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom' > > Deirdre Harvey wrote: > > > > > >> Nick Reynolds-FM&T wrote: > >>> Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose" > >>> > >> Freedom is another word for self determination. > >> Incarceration, the opposite of Freedom is no control. > > > > Isn't your argument that control is bad and that people must > > relinquish control for your benefit? > > > No my argument is some controls are social necessary, we call > them laws.
We don't call them all laws. > But the particular law of copyright, imposes more costs than > benefits and should be abolished. That is your contention, it is not a fact. Other people have been making the case that there are benefits to copyright that outweigh the costs as long as the use of copyright is proportional to the benefit it confers, e.g. time limited and with exceptions for personal copying. > We may need to retain control over personal images, and > respect peoples privacy. If we need new laws to maintain > these controls we should pass them. Easy as that, eh? Just pass a few privacy laws... they never impinge on the freedom of people and their right to access certain information, do they? > The default should be Freedom. Whose freedom? Not Martin Belam's freedom to protect his work from unauthorised copying obviously. - 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]/
