| johnm214 |
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| 07/09/08 11:03 AM |
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Re: The ethics of intellectual property rights
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Ginseng1 said:
Nahhh...
IMO in all the universes, of all time, everything that can possibly exist already has, already does and certainly will.
The idea that anything is "new" or "original", that which can be rigidly labelled as being owned by something or someone, doesn't exist.
Everything is everywhere. And everything is one.
IMO!!
relevance?
US IP law, and I presume other countries as well, though not sure, doesn't recognize ownership of facts and ideas, only creative expresion of them. You can't copy my movie's plot and creative elements, but you can make your own movie with the same message or basic plot elements so long as you don't appropriate the creative fluroishes of the plot/ideas.
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Zouden said:
The idea of copyright is fine, and a good one. But why should it last 70 years after the artist's death?
I don't know, and disagree with it.
I think this is just the rights holders' interest trumping rationality and public good.
30 years is plenty enough time to get whatever profits suffice to motivate others to make similar works and to benifit the original producer sufficiently.
It's bullshit, but the underlying scheme is quite fair, I think, besides the actual length.... There is no reason Psycho shouldn't be public domain by now. 40+ years is enough