<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Paul Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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for the same precise reason that "copying is not theft"<br></div>
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any single one of the measures you've cited removes the ability of the<br>
socially-agreed upon owner of an object, or holder of a job, to use<br>
what they "own" as they see fit (the teacher angle is a bit of a wierd<br>
case in your argument, but it doesn't break entirely).<br>
<br>
however, in the case of a creative work, the work's life begins at<br>
some point (or period) in time when its creator decides that s/he<br>
wants others to see/hear/touch/smell it. it doesn't take anything away<br>
from anyone to say *at that point* in time "the creator decides who<br>
can make a copy of this".<br>
<br>
making cars illegal to help bus drivers hurts car owners. making<br>
washing machines illegal to help washing ladies hurts owners of<br>
washing machines. placing limits on the ability to copy someone else's<br>
work hurts no-one if those limits are sensible.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>Yes, this is actually the core of all copyright discussions, namely - can ideas be property?<br>I think ideas cannot be property and I show why I think so here:<br><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=authorship&a=authorship_property">http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=authorship&a=authorship_property</a><br>
<br>I also do not believe an author has any right to control what he has created in the general case.<br>And because I think so, I do not agree that placing limits on the ability<br>to copy does not hurt anyone. It does hurt everyone - because the ability<br>
to copy is so easy to execute. And such limitations on ideas become draconian limitations, they always<br>tend to increase.<br><br>The allegories with cars and buses are bad, like any allegories, but they did show my point, I believe.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Louigi Verona<br><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/">http://www.louigiverona.ru/</a><br>