Re: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Timothy Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> wrote:
>
> Mr. Greenberg goes on at great length asserting that copyrights
> are property, something which I have occasionally asserted and
> never denied. But the question of whether copyrights are property
> (they are) differs from the question of whether they should be
> property (they probably should, but Congress would probably be
> within its rights to make them non-transferrable and non-heritable
> if it thought that by so doing it would better encourage the arts).

I do not disagree with Mr. Phillips that these are different things. I am pleased he agrees with me and does not deny that Copyright is definitely a form of property. To the extent I may have been confused by my readings of his previous postings that to me appeared to assert otherwise, I am now satisfied by this remark.

Andrew C. Greenberg
<werdna[_at_]gate.net> Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 15:34:23 GMT