Wise insight.

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:50 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting m ike as of Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:18:05PM -0700:
> > > Otherwise, Shakespeare (and other valuable works) would be owned by the
> > > individual (or in todays context, corporations) forever, and noone would
> > > be able to use them without paying the copyright owner a fee
> > 
> > Honestly, I do not see what is wrong with that.  In these terms, a
> > leveled economic playing field would benefit young writers.  Sounds
> > good to me.
> 
> All great writing "steals" from what came before.
> 
> The public domain is the soil in which creativity grows. Ever-increasing
> copyrights make the soil poor.
> 
> -Stewart "Nothing new under the sun" Stremler
> 
> 


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