[overflow] Re: Copyrights (by way of Tom Smith got his wish...)

[mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michelle & Boyd Bottorff)]

> Should copyrights work the same way for encrypted and 'open'
> material?

Rich, I was getting enough brainstrain trying to address copyrights, and
"authorial" rights and "fair use" and so forth.  Did you HAVE to bring
encryption into the mix?


I'm trying to decide what I actually THINK about copyright as a natural
right and the "authorial rights" bit, and money keeps tangling up in it.
What if we eliminated money.  What would be the "natural rights" of a
creator to his creations in a mythical society where one's every need
was already provided for?

And I STILL think that people shouldn't hand around copies and alter and
otherwise use stuff without asking.  It's isn't NICE, it isn't polite.
It doens't matter if it can't hurt them monetarily it can hurt them in
other ways.  And if the author is dead, and you can't ask for permission
any more, then you maybe even still should avoid doing things that you
KNOW the author wouldn't like.

And I've just realized that I've pretty much said you shouldn't parody
without permission.  :)


Michelle Bottorff
Lady Lavender

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