On 11/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not surprised that printers lobbied for a law that benefitted themselves. Here is why I brought that up.....I wonder if people that don't know this history think that authors' copyrights were inevitable/natural and would have appeared in any sane culture. I wonder if when they find out this history it will make them reconsider whether things could have been different then and/or today. That perhaps authors' copyrights aren't so natural/inevitable after all.
If mass duplication of words and images is not technically possible, and there is no market economy, then there is very little reason for the question of copyright to arise. Unlimited free sharing of ideas is great--if you're talking about a new technique of starting fire by striking a flint rock instead of twirling a stick. --Rachel -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
