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No problem, didn't think you were. Although now that you mention it...
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Plus, those rulings do not alter the fact that a civil suit between private parties does not have the legal standing to overturn existing copyright laws, as long as those laws are consistent with the Constitution (which they are). Hence Marybeth Peters' objections. Quote:
![]() More to the point, I really do not see why just being the first person to convert these works into a new format suddenly ought to give you the rights to use it as you please. That isn't the case with music recordings, for example, which was able to pull tremendous amounts of recordings back into circulation -- while obeying existing copyright laws. I don't see why books should be any different or why Google (or anyone else) should receive some sort of special dispensation. Quote:
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all endorsed by catchy little text ads that are unobtusive such as, Buy Apples! on a bottle of Drugs. and Free Range Chickens on sale! on the side of airplanes. |
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Copyright should Expire Life+5 years, (that way to help the wife/husban out) or in the case if if the author has a child, Life+ until Youngest child Graduates college. trust fund babies are a plague on society for the most part. |
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Copyright duration should be based on the date of the individual book (as it was originally), not the life of the author. The amount of time should be what is required in order for the average work to turn a profit for the creator. That is all that is needed to "encourage the arts". If works are profitable, then artists will continue to produce, and thereby enrich the public domain. The whole "life +" BS is just greed/control on the part of the content industry, it has nothing to do with the original intent of copyright.
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It is not overturning law, this is just a settlement. It does give Google a lot of rights and legal protection, but it does not give me the right (for instance) to go copying and distributing copyrighted books. |
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Now, I never really *liked* "WKRP in Cincinnati", but the show played so much then-current music that I've never seen in on DVD. Current shows already account for this in their current contracts, just as current books *probably* account for electronic rights. On another point, how would this settlement handle something like the Wild Cards series of sf anthologies? Multiple authors, many still writing but others not. I recently read one of the principle editors say that they couldn't even re-issue it in paper due to conflicting rights for the individual stories. |
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Personally, I'd like to see copyrighted books that have gone out of print have a mechanism to become available through something like Google is proposing. However, from a legal standpoint I think this needs to be addressed through legislation and not put in place by the courts. If the courts circumvent copyright law to allow Google's proposal then I'm afraid we'll end up with something like RIAA with strange side effects like businesses not allowed to play radios. Furthermore, with courts setting the rules there will be no way to change those rules if the public doesn't like them. |
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