Re: droit de suite

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Nobody is seriously arguing for the elimination of copyright; only
> > against its expansion. ...
>
> I for one want to see copyright abolished entirely. It is becoming
> monstrous and there is no sight of end in expanding the copyright.
> It never contracts. It always expands and expands and expands. The
> first U.S. copyright law is only few paragraphs long. Now, it is
> many chapters long. Trying to keep the copyright from expanding is
> totally futile. It is time to slay the monster.
>
> This is not to say that I am not sensitive to the unfair distribution
> of wealth. I do not agree with the approach of copyright which
> criminalizes the action of copying regardless of the consequences
> but will be open to an approach where a portion (up to 10%) of the
> wealth as generated from the sales of the intellectual works should
> be returned to the works' creators for a number of years (up to 50
> years -- from the moment when a work is fixed). With this latter
> approach, a child can paint a Sesame Street or Pokemon character on
> the wall in his bedroom. If he charges a kid $1.00 per visit to his
> bedroom, he has to give 10 cents to the creators of the character.
> Other than the mandatory donation of the wealth to the creators
> and laws that deal with forgery (for example, a person alters a
> copy of the intellectual work and claims that it is written by
> the same author of the work without disclosing the alterations)
> and misattribution/trademark (for example, a person creates an
> intellectual work and claims that is created by another person
> which is not true or a person copies an intellectual work done
> by another person and claims that he creates it -- "credit where
> credit is due"), people will have the full freedom to copy the
> intellectual works.

You think the distribution of wealth is unfair now, just wait till you abolish copyright!

(Of course, you'll be waiting a very long time)

> Robert C. Cumbow
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