On 02/14/97, "Sheldon W. Halpern" <shalpern[_at_]pop.service.ohio-state.edu> said:
>
> It is by no means self-evident to me that copyright term extension is
> necessarily a bad thing; "copyright" and "public domain" cannot be
> considered in abstract as "good" or "bad."
I would suggest that the purpose of copyright is to increase the amount of material in the public domain.
An analogy would be to the biblical injunction to allow the oxen to eat of the grain they thresh so that they thresh more grain <g>.
Regards,
John Lederer
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net>
Oregon, Wisconsin Received on Mon Feb 17 1997 - 16:36:44 GMT
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