Re: thought for the week

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Lance Purple <lpurple[_at_]netcom.com> wrote:
>
> It's very nice for Irving Berlin's grandkids to get money without
> having to work for it; but do we -really- need to keep the other 90%
> of works from those years copyrighted, when there is no economic benefit
> to the author, the publisher, -or- the public? Either put these "dead"
> works into the public domain where they belong, or at least declare it
> fair use to copy them, until such time as the publisher sees fit to
> fulfil their end of the copyright bargain.

If the other 90% had no value, no one would want them. Reprints would not sell.

You can't have it both ways.

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
<70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Fri Jul 30 1999 - 11:55:28 GMT