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Misc</h2>

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Copyright Is Bad for Society</h3>

<p class="first">Copyright is a tool used to placate publishers who feel that they will
make no money if things can be freely copied. Publishers, however,
contribute <strong>nothing</strong> of worth to our culture; they are mere middlemen
who print the creative work of others, and so their pleas should be
ignored.</p>

<p>A short copyright term is acceptable, and worked in most of the world
for a few hundred years. As it stands now we have perpetual copyrights
(as in the Old World), and the cultural stagnation that affected
Europe then is now occurring today in most of the world. There are
many books published between 1917 and a few years ago that I would
love to read, but am unable to because they have not been printed (for
older books often in as long as 40 or 50 years). The albums of a few
bands I like are out of print now and I will be long dead before I get
a chance to purchase them (<em>if</em> copyright is not extended again, which
experience tells me will happen soon) because the record labels have
no interest in returning the masters to the band!</p>

<p>What point is there to allowing copyright to exist on works which are
not being published? If their terms had expired there is a chance that
they would be being published by public domain publishing houses who
subsist on smaller margins. This would <a href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=482">create real economic value</a>, and
more importantly great <strong>social</strong> value. Allowing art to rot is a
disrespect to human creativity and an immeasurable loss for all future
humans.</p>

<p>I predict that in two or three hundred years there will be nearly no
record of any literature or art produced in the twentieth century. As
it stands today we have lost most of it with the exception of a few
trashy works which have become popular to the masses.</p>


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<p class="cke-footer">&lt;emag&gt; http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/38722/
&lt;Leebert&gt; emag: I don't see any other source claiming she's dead,
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&lt;tim_m&gt; what's wrong with et online?
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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>
	46
	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>
	58
	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>
	66
	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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4222507d	100	<p class="cke-footer"><emag> http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/38722/
	101	<Leebert> emag: I don't see any other source claiming she's dead,
	102	just collapsed.
	103	<tim_m> what's wrong with et online?
	104	<ascii_phil> It keeps trying to use Skype to phone home.
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