[PEN-L:32610] left gets nod from right on copyright

[johan soderberg <soderbergjohan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I have been following this list passivly for a while.
However I forwarded the note on copyright to another
list, oekonux.org (devoted to the crossover between
radical theory  and free software), and I got this
respons:

On the story about Posner.
A friend of mine was there and it's not as simplae as
the article made out. Posner is an economaoist
fundamentalist. He knows that things have gone
too far. His way to have his cake and eat it is to
propose a ten year long copyright duration,
_infinitely_renewable_ but contingent on the
payment of huge renewal fees. Thus things that were
regarded as valuable would never enter the public
domain, but most stuff wouldn't be worth
the time and cost of renewal and would thus enter the
public domain. Of course up until the 1976 act,
copyrights had to be renewed after 28
years or else they entered the public domain, and few
renewals took place. Posner's position is not exactly
critical, but perhaps even worse, as it removes the
stuff we need as critical cultural workers or free
software programmers, for example, from our reach
forever.No thanks.


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