Re: "Hollywood hacking bill"

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:52:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nancy Willard <nwillard[_at_]OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> wrote: 

>

> Now put yourself in my shoes. I am trying to figure out how to communicate to
> young people about the value of copyright and the need to respect the copyright
> rights of others. ...

The proper way to tell the young people about copyright is to put it in the proper perspective, but not to respect copyright. Always reserve the respect for the public domain. ("Perspective" and "respect" share the same root "spec" meaning "to look". "Perspective" means to look through while "respect" means to look again and again.) It is only through knowledge about the public domain that we know when copyright goes too far. Without the public domain, you have no standard to compare copyright against.

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: 5,934

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 21:55:48 GMT

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