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| 13 | <h1>The Weak Must Die</h1> |
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| 30 | <!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>Intermediate forms of thought which have been refined.</p> |
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| 36 | Copyright Is Bad for Society</h3> |
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| 38 | <p class="first">Copyright is a tool used to placate publishers who feel that they will |
| 39 | make no money if things can be freely copied. Publishers, however, |
| 40 | contribute <strong>nothing</strong> of worth to our culture; they are mere middlemen |
| 41 | who print the creative work of others, and so their pleas should be |
| 42 | ignored.</p> |
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| 44 | <p>A short copyright term is acceptable, and worked in most of the world |
| 45 | for a few hundred years. As it stands now we have perpetual copyrights |
| 46 | (as in the Old World), and the cultural stagnation that affected |
| 47 | Europe then is now occurring today in most of the world. There are |
| 48 | many books published between 1917 and a few years ago that I would |
| 49 | love to read, but am unable to because they have not been printed (for |
| 50 | older books often in as long as 40 or 50 years). The albums of a few |
| 51 | bands I like are out of print now and I will be long dead before I get |
| 52 | a chance to purchase them (<em>if</em> copyright is not extended again, which |
| 53 | experience tells me will happen soon) because the record labels have |
| 54 | no interest in returning the masters to the band!</p> |
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| 56 | <p>What point is there to allowing copyright to exist on works which are |
| 57 | not being published? If their terms had expired there is a chance that |
| 58 | they would be being published by public domain publishing houses who |
| 59 | subsist on smaller margins. This would <a href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=482">create real economic value</a>, and |
| 60 | more importantly great <strong>social</strong> value. Allowing art to rot is a |
| 61 | disrespect to human creativity and an immeasurable loss for all future |
| 62 | humans.</p> |
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| 64 | <p>I predict that in two or three hundred years there will be nearly no |
| 65 | record of any literature or art produced in the twentieth century. As |
| 66 | it stands today we have lost most of it with the exception of a few |
| 67 | trashy works which have become popular to the masses.</p> |
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| 97 | <p class="cke-footer"><RetroJ`> here's something interesting about one of these chinese |
| 98 | pop music videos I've found.. it illustrates the |
| 99 | cultural barrier nicely. this young female pop star is |
| 100 | wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag |
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| 103 | March 13, 2008</p> |
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