Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> While it is not directly related to your inquiry, Dr. Sam Samudrala
> follows his own philosophy called "Free Music Philosophy". I
> have very little interest in any music, song, poem, and any
> related discipline and I do not collect data or research on
> how his music help or diminish others' creativity (no time to
> do that). Nevertheless, I think that he is a living example of
> how non-copyrighted works can help the society as a whole.
> (His urls are http://www.ram.org and http://www.twisted-helices.com/th )

The Free Software Foundation operates a similar philosophy. But FSF depends on copyright to enforce the terms of the GNU licences and keep the software open.

Edward Barrow
edward[_at_]plato32.demon.co.uk Received on Thu Jul 09 1998 - 17:29:05 GMT