On 5/21/07, Bob Crandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:48 -1000, marbux wrote: I don't have a problem with copyrights if they are limited to 5 years or less and are not renewable. This gives the inventor some time to re coop the cost of inventing and then gives everybody else a shot at it. You're right, patents, just say no.
Yes, copyrights would bother me a lot less if they were limited to a very short term. But I do think that regardless, we need to go back into an opt-in copyright system rather than the opt-out system we suddenly acquired 20 years ago. The opt-out approach creates far more problems than it cures. E.g., try to find a web content editor click-through contributor license for a wiki that addresses the problem of republication via mirrors and RDF/XML syndication, and RSS syndication if there is a requirement of attribution. As though Wikipedia might feasibly syndicate the names of all people who contributed to any given page. In the Creative Commons set of licenses, we're back to the ground zero Non-attribution 1.0 license. So everyone kinds of shrugs and ignores copyrights. And the opt-out approach creates those kinds of rats' nests all over the place. Best regards, Marbux _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
