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Originally Posted by kennyc
The thing that you and others keep ignoring is that our constitution and laws (including the legal contracts) ARE the will of the people. At least until they are changed by the processes in place. If you or others feel they are wrong then work to change them, instead of bitching and complaining on web forums. Till then if you choose to break the law you are performing illegal and possibly criminal acts and can be held accountable.
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I am certainly not ignoring the laws, but watching with growing alarm as more and more of them become ever increasingly threatening to the concept of government by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Regardless of the tokenistic "fair use" bones thrown in my direction, the current state of copyright law leans heavily to one side. In order to correct this imbalance, I propose that the Publishers utilize a social contract that greatly overshadows their petty legal victories, the US Constitution.
In order to do so, they must propose that copyrights be extended to all the works they feel are justified in an amendment to the Constitution which would then be ratified by all the people in their respective states. If the measure failed, then we would return to the founders' original intent of "Science and useful Arts" with "Limited Times", as was already ratified by the People so many years ago.
You see, the change that must occur is the realization that the Publisher's or Author's power and authority to control, comes not from himself, but from the People. When he realizes this, then, and only then, can a truly productive compromise be reached...