[Ojc-announce] Re: [Newspoetry] good time to start boycotting amazon.com

[Joe Futrelle]

On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:07:06AM -0600, sigfried at shout.net wrote:
> gillespie william k said:
> > Being asked to boycott Amazon.com is like being asked to give up the first
> > amendment.
[snip]
> The bigger issue is copyright and patent
> law in general.  I don't yet have a proposal for replacing copyright law with
> something else.
[snip] anyway, what
> do you think of copyright law?

I think it blows.  It only protects owners.  The free flow of ideas is
critical in countless ways.  Imagine a law where you could only
copyright original ideas, and your rights were limited to being cited
when someone used them.

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