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Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
- To: Ernest Miller <ernest.miller(at)aya.yale.edu>
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
- From: Scott A Crosby <crosby(at)qwes.math.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: <dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
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> Ernest Miller wrote:
> >
> > One of the problems I have with "lifetime of the author" as part of a
> > copyright term is that it tends to place emphasis on "natural rights" of
> > the author as opposed to the public as SJ writes below.
> >
If you want to phrase it that way... I think its fair to give an author a
'natural right' for their unpublished works. Maybe they're unhappy with
them. Maybe they're embarassed by them. Maybe they're private letters they
sent to a friend 3 decades earlier.. It doesn't matter.
Thats why I suggested life+10 for unpublished works, and a fixed, say 40
year term for published works.
Scott
--
No DVD movie will ever enter the public domain, nor will any CD. The last CD
and the last DVD will have moldered away decades before they leave copyright.
This is not encouraging the creation of knowledge in the public domain.