Crosbie Fitch wrote: > FC would return to the pre-copyright era where an author only retains > AUTHORSHIP to their published works - otherwise only enjoying control over > their unpublished work. Um, what? Most people involved in the free culture movement aren't advocating a return to the pre-copyright era.
The problem isn't the existence of copyright--in a lot of ways, it *can* "promote the progress of science and the useful arts". The problem is that nowadays copyright seems to impede progress as much as it promotes it because it's become unbalanced in favor of rightsholders. If you make terms shorter, make the scope clearer, make penalties more reasonable, etc., copyright would return to benefiting society as a whole. If an author can only ever control stuff that they *haven't* published (and presumably made money off), that's not much of an incentive to write, is it? -- Karen _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
