--- In [email protected], "Andreas Haugstrup"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:37:20 +0100, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > At the presentation at Mashup Camp, Lawrence Lessig said that it makes
> > more sense as the law worked before, that you had to initiate a
> > copyright otherwise it was public domain. I agree with that, intent
> > is actively chosen not given by default.
>
> Good idea in theory, terrible in practice. Automatic protection is
IMO a
> very good thing about copyrights. Imagine a world where you had to
> register to get protection: Every time you wrote a blog entry you
would
> have to fill out a form, print your blog entry in 3 copies, fill out a
> check for $20 and mail everything to the Copyright Office.
>
> Now *that* would stiffle creativity. It is easier to assume
protection and
> have the author waive their rights. I also don't have to post a note
on my
> furniture to retain my ownership rights - those are also automatic
(the
> way I want them to be, even if I do live in a replica of the IKEA
> catalogue).
>
> > Right now any work that
> > someone would want to reuse, they would have to contact all associated
> > parties whether they intended it to be public domain or not. It's an
> > unnecessary burden on artistic development.
>
> This is why you have Creative Commons. Don't tell me that writing
"This
> work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License" to be a
> burden.
> --
> Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
> <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ >
> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology.
>
How were newspaper articles copyrighted in the U.S. before 1980's? I
would think there's was a general copyright of a publication that
didn't require each entry be filed at the copyright office. Automatic
copyright appears to extreme in the other direction, what happens when
someone dies, doesn't the copyright revert to another entity then
automatically and continue to have the work unavailable?
-- Enric
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