16 Aug
2006
16 Aug
'06
6:34 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:51 -0400, Rob wrote:
On Wed August 16 2006 14:30, Lee Revell wrote:
By "managed to get the laws changed" are you referring to the US
constitution? English common law from the 18th century?
Copyright didn't start with the DMCA you know...
Lee
Well, I happen to think the law is correct and
logical in this
case. My creations are my property, and I should have the
same right to make a living by selling them as a sculptor or a
baker or a carpenter does. Copying my creations without my
permission denies me the right to make a living by selling my
creations, in exactly the same way that theft deprives a maker
of physical objects of that right.
It's true that copyright holders managed to get the laws changed
in most places to fit what they would like reality to be, but
reality remains unchanged. Copying is still just copying, not
moving.