[extropy-chat] finding old (and new) sf

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 2 01:14:26 UTC 2005



--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> At 05:12 PM 7/1/2005 -0700, ML wrote:
> 
> > > >No point in paying some publisher for an old
> > > >copy of "Blade Runner" (i.e. "DADOES") when [Philip] K.
> > > >Dick is too dead to enjoy the royalties.
> > >
> > > His kids aren't dead.
> >
> >What do they have to do with anything? Let them get honest jobs.
> 
> Good grief! Mike Lorrey the rabid socialist?

I have been previously on record stating that one reason, IMHO, for the
plague of attacks on IP is that congress has extended IP protections
for too long. WRT patents, the extension of patent protections from 17
to 20 years in GATT is in the wrong direction, given the accelerating
advancement of technology, the protection period should be shortening
if it is to fulfill its goal of encouraging innovation. 

WRT copyrights, yes, publishers copyright protections should only be
extended if the publisher issues new editions of the work, otherwise
they should be adjuged to have 'abandoned' the claim to the work, like
a railroad company abandoning its tracks, with title reverting to the
original landowners. IMHO a publisher should issue a new edition each
decade or so, of some significant production quantity, else the
copyright reverts to the author. If the author cannot either find a new
publisher, or themselves publish and sell the required quantities,
their work should be regarded as abandoned and become public domain.


Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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