Re: Attribution is not required in public domain materials

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Katharine Colgan <katecolgan[_at_]comcast.net> wrote:
>
> A human being's thinking is made up from all the ideas and influences it has
> ever encountered, which is then transformed into that person's unique
> thoughts. I studied Ancient Greek. It would obviously be absurd to credit
> Socrates, Euripides, or Sappho for every idea I have on philosophy, society,
> religion, or poetry.

Do I detect double standard here? First, you said that it is absurd to credit ancient philosophers for every idea that you copy. Then, you turn around and want people to give you attribution any time after 70 years after death.

> I do not copy other people's language. I quote other people's language, with
> attribution.

That is just play with words. In order to quote, you need to copy.

> >>You have 70 years (more than 25,000 days) after death to
> >>control the attribution. Is that enough?
>
> No.

You need to abandon the childish mindset and learn to be content with very, very, very long copyright protection that lasts for more than 100 years on average. Because you already take seeds from the public domain freely, it is only equitable that you return the seeds of your fruits that resulted from the former seeds to the public domain.

Else, people 100 years from now will give you an unfavorable name called "control freak".

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
http://www.boycottcopyright.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: 5,675

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 20:02:12 GMT