Re: copyright under stress

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000, Jeremy G. Byrne <jeremy[_at_]iz.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/06/2000, Don Roemer <droe2[_at_]earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > I find it difficult to follow your post. How does copyright
> > restrict my access to information?
>
> Oh, please. You're just jerking me around, yeah?
>
> Copyright produces artificial scarcity in order to manufacture
> "value" in information. It sets economic barriers in the way of
> access to the information which in turn give rise to geographic
> and even cryptographic barriers, all of which restrict your and
> my access.

I love the economic mumbo-jumbo, but I'm with Don Roemer in believing that copyright has to do with the right to copy, not freedom of access. I'd be interested in seeing concrete examples of situations in which copyright causes denial of access.

> Robert C. Cumbow
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