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33 | <!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>Intermediate forms of thought which have been refined.</p> | |
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39 | Copyright Is Bad for Society</h3> | |
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41 | <p class="first">Copyright is a tool used to placate publishers who feel that they will | |
42 | make no money if things can be freely copied. Publishers, however, | |
43 | contribute <strong>nothing</strong> of worth to our culture; they are mere middlemen | |
44 | who print the creative work of others, and so their pleas should be | |
45 | ignored.</p> | |
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47 | <p>A short copyright term is acceptable, and worked in most of the world | |
48 | for a few hundred years. As it stands now we have perpetual copyrights | |
49 | (as in the Old World), and the cultural stagnation that affected | |
50 | Europe then is now occurring today in most of the world. There are | |
51 | many books published between 1917 and a few years ago that I would | |
52 | love to read, but am unable to because they have not been printed (for | |
53 | older books often in as long as 40 or 50 years). The albums of a few | |
54 | bands I like are out of print now and I will be long dead before I get | |
55 | a chance to purchase them (<em>if</em> copyright is not extended again, which | |
56 | experience tells me will happen soon) because the record labels have | |
57 | no interest in returning the masters to the band!</p> | |
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59 | <p>What point is there to allowing copyright to exist on works which are | |
60 | not being published? If their terms had expired there is a chance that | |
61 | they would be being published by public domain publishing houses who | |
62 | subsist on smaller margins. This would <a href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=482">create real economic value</a>, and | |
63 | more importantly great <strong>social</strong> value. Allowing art to rot is a | |
64 | disrespect to human creativity and an immeasurable loss for all future | |
65 | humans.</p> | |
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67 | <p>I predict that in two or three hundred years there will be nearly no | |
68 | record of any literature or art produced in the twentieth century. As | |
69 | it stands today we have lost most of it with the exception of a few | |
70 | trashy works which have become popular to the masses.</p> | |
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100 | <p class="cke-footer"><Sonarman> WHAT??!??! you don't want to attend my roundtable on |
101 | neomarxist deconstruction schemes for modern | |
102 | capitalism? YOU'RE PROPPING UP THE SYSTEM, PIG. | |
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