Re: Re: limits on copyright

Who Mr. Sedlik, but writers and inventors get to pass through their life time of work, when they did not even have to pay for the asset that they are passing through to an heir? A lawyer cannot pass the hours he charged for, nor the client base he has obtained, a Doctor cannot pass through his great operations that saved one life, a ditch digger cannot pass through the ditch she created, no matter the skill talent and effort it took to create the ditch. The maker of a chair does not get a continuing after the sale return on his chair and so on.

For most of us, who do not have the benefit of a government grant of a monopoly there is nothing at death, the salary stops, the costs go on, and the assets that are transferred are invested returns(from our salaries) or savings (again from our salaries).

If you are good enough to create good works, people will pay you for the hours it took you to create them, assuming you created works that had a market demand, and that would be fair, but a perpetual income, even after the death of the artist is not fair especially when it is our government that gives the artist that income.

sterling

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jeff Sedlik wrote:

> Herb Coleman wrote:
> > In reality as soon
> > I perceive of the idea I can reproduce it with out having a real effect
> > on the original. Likewise we all know of people who have downloaded
> > music, picture or text from the internet. The original creators of this
> > work still have their originals and the other copies do not diminish
> > their property at all.
>
> <<< Herb, I disagree, entirely. To an author/owner of a work, the value of
> the original expression is directly dependent on the extent to which that
> value may be exploited. When the work is copied, and when those copies are
> used or marketed, the copies compete with the original expression, and the
> value of the original expression is diminished. Without copyright
> protection, the value of an author's work is diminished, and with it, the
> ability of the author to receive due consideration for the author's work
> product. The author is rendered unable to support him/herself through the
> creation of works, and thus, the incentive to create new works is removed.
> The author then secures a job working the counter at Blockbuster, earning
> minimum wage, and has no time or interest in the creation of new works.
> Wait....Under your scenario, there would be no job at Blockbuster, as there
> would be no video rental industry, as the ability to distribute, display and
> broadcast unauthorized copies of films would eliminate the incentive for
> filmmakers to create films. Writers would have no incentive to write.
> Schools would then have no new or revised textbooks. And librarians, the
> very folks who argue against copyright protection, might just be out of a
> job.
>
> It is amusing to see professors and other academics arguing against
> copyright protection, while at the same time cashing their paychecks every
> week. I suggest that anyone who would assert that authors should not have
> the ability to own and protect their work product should:
>
> (1) Add up all of the compensation that they have ever received for all work
> that they have ever done, and return the total amount to their employers.
> (2) Refuse to accept any salary or other compensation for their work, for
> life.
> (3) Donate all of their savings and property to their employer upon their
> deaths, thereby depriving their heirs of benefiting from a lifetime of work
>
> Jeff Sedlik
> Advertising Photographers of America
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