This is a war against the Copymonopolists

Sterling writes, in reply to my wondering about the ease of making copies of other people's ditches and selling them under one's own name (he had compared producing a written work with producing a ditch, suggesting that each should be compensated by a single fee or wage):

>> Mr. Schultz, my answer is when was the last time that someone dug
>> one ditch and got paid many times for it? The point is, that no
>> difference exists between a writer and ditch digger, their work is
>> personal. For the effort they should each be paid once, not several
>> millions times. and such would be the case if the feudal digital
>> rights system [fdrs] were abolished.

That is a nonresponse. BTW, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "Mr." Nor, for that matter, have I ever been paid "several millions times" for any of my writings.

--Dodi Schultz Received on Thu Aug 22 2002 - 04:58:00 GMT