More needs to be said/done on this. Wired News is carrying an opinion piece talking about letting Google copy books and control the use of the books instead of limiting copying of the books as copyright law technically stipulates. Read the article and chime in if you so choose. Otherwise... let people you know that copyright law is WRONG and needs to be revised in the interests of intellectual development instead of corporate interests with protection given to the AUTHOR/CREATOR instead of the vague term "copyright holder". *sigh* so much more could be said.... but won't say it now here.
posted by Andrew 'Mickey Knox' Gearhart @ 09:04
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Hello Mickey,
the whole history of corporate-based copyright law becoming gradually expanded stinks.
I'm sure you are already aware that the founding fathers had a much more modest and circumspect sense of what copyright is supposed to be than we moderns do.
Without a doubt, this is the case (it's beyond the scope of the original framers' intentions). The purpose and point of copyright & patent law was to inspire creativity and innovation. Patents, I believe, largely still do this. Though, they expire... unlike copyright that can virtually last forever.
While it is difficult to consider the idea of how the founding fathers would have handled the challenges that technology poses to safeguarding the rights of the author/creator of a work, I'm convinced that copyright law would not be in the state it is in now. We need copyright reform that spurns the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) to seriously think about the purpose of IP (intellectual property) and it's role in society today. Ahhh... too busy today to truly rant... will revisit this. Thanks, hugo, for posting to let me know this matters to somebody else besides me.
Mr. G! Ha Ha...So, I'm VERY bored at work and throwing random things into Google. So, I throw MY name into google, and I come across my name in a blog with the web address as gearhartav. So, I check it out and it's Mr. G! Hi Mr. G!
-Michelle Jorden
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