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

[Scott Rettberg]

I'm with Sigfried here. You gotta keep some copyright. To feed writers with.
Now, sampling is cool, don't get me wrong, and ought to be legal. And people
should be cool about letting other people use their stuff, but you need that
protection. Not all the companies that are profiting off uncopyrighted stuff
are failing (Northern Light, for instance). It's sticky, but some kind of
legal protection needs to stay in place. i think . . . . (of course the
unknown is chock full of what some tightos would call copyright
violations--it all gets weird on the web).

Looking forward to Y2K with the Newspoetry team,

Scott

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>From: sigfried at shout.net
>To: futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Re: [Ojc-announce] Re: [Newspoetry] good time to start boycotting
amazon.com
>Date: Tue, Dec 28, 1999, 12:33 PM
>

> Joe Futrelle said:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, but what about the rights of authors?  What if publishing companies
> could publish anything they wanted without asking permission, and only
> mentioning the author's name, no royalties.  Whoever had the biggest,
> fastest press and distribution system would make all the money on published
> books and authors would get nothing but recongnition.
>
> No special copyright scheme (copyleft, public domain, defensive copyright,
> etc.) protects against this except for standard copyright.
>
> s
>
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