-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael O'Keefe wrote: > I'm not sure why Tracy thinks copyright is costly to the taxpayer
According to: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat5201s.html The copyright office requested a budget of approximately $35,000,000 for 2002. Not much in the grand scheme of the whole federal budget but to me $35M is still a lot of money! I bet the court costs associated with all of the copyright suits are pretty large also. Look at how much SCO alone has paid to kill Linux on the ground of copyright (or was that license violation? Whatever it is this week...) and not only that we are paying all of this money every year so that Mickey Mouse can retain copyright protection for 100 years (and counting). We should have been able to copy and view the old Disney movies for free a long time ago instead of still having to pay for them. So it is costly to us in many ways. - -- Tracy R Reed http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCXH7P9PIYKZYVAq0RAhTjAJ4wE7hwujsC80KNvs+n4IvNCHXpugCdE6Vk 2t0QzrYuO5+dgguplyT+XQA= =i8Nh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
