Re: Reasons to fight against copyright

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:43:52 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Keith Tabor <ket354[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote: 

>

> Second, exponential growth is not sustainable. That
> doesn't mena that there is nothing to worry about, it
> only means that common sense will pervail and the
> further the copyright system is skewed towards rights
> owners the further it will swing back against them. Of
> course, making that swing happen will take a lot of
> work.

I confess that I lack great faith in common sense, a hallmark of utilitarianism and pragmatism. (I can hear people saying, "O ye of little faith!") Nancy Willard mentioned in her post dated Aug. 12, 2002 that there is a force in copyright that works toward the balance between authors and users. It sounds like a fantasy in _Star Wars_ where there is "the" force behind everything. Or, it could be possible that copyright has unseen force or spirit that will place the fulcrum at the proper place eventually. I don't know whether to believe it.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,965

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Sun Sep 01 2002 - 23:46:37 GMT

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