Re: copyright

[TimW333521@xxxxxxx]

I am afraid I disagree with you totally.  I know I speak for around 99.9% of
all writers.  We are workers like anyone else, except we produce an
intellectual product.  We need to be paid for our labor.   Copyright is just
about all we have to see that this happens.

I denigrate copyright is the same as defending the right of an enployer not
to pay his/her's employees.

Of course, it would be an non-question if we lived in a society in which we
received automatically everything we need and in return we worked as we are
so motivated.  But that is not where it is presently at.  In this sense
copyright, for writers, is a class struggle kind of issue.

Will the net destroy us?  If this were to happen the conglomerates would
survive but creative people would not.  Will it happen?  No, it will not.  We
will take what legal action is necessary to defend our intellectual property
rights , which is to say, the products of our labor.


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