Re: [dvd-discuss] ABA to Vote on Copyright Term Extension Resolution

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

Sorry to reply to myself but having read the report it's not really worth 
anyone elses time to do so. That quote pretty much sums it up. It's a classic 
appeal to authority argument. Obviously the 1976 Senate Report could not be 
mistaken and this is just following their wisdom....they then reiterate recent 
court cases. 

Of interest is the argument that "winners pay for losers". They openly argue 
that allowing the copyright term for "winners" to be increased , promotes 
progress by providing finance for losers..

On 20 Jun 2002 at 19:21, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:

From:           	microlenz@earthlink.net
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> Haven't read the whole thing but this one stood out 
> 
> "The Report rejected that Congress was stepping "down the road of perpetual
> copyright protection" for three reasons:  (1) the Patent and Copyright Clause of
> the Constitution precludes such a result; (2) the "emerging international
> standard" is a fixed term based on the author's death; and (3) the U.S.
> principle of protecting the author and at least one generation of heirs remained
> unchanged by the bill which simply recognized the life-plus-50 term as
> insufficient to accomplish this goal."
> 
> We CAN NOT have perpetual copyright because it is forbidden therefore whatever
> we do can not create a perpetual copyright. 
> 
> On 20 Jun 2002 at 19:33, Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> Date sent:      	Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:33:36 -0400
> From:           	Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
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> > 
> > (Forwarded from NY Fair Use Discussion list,
> > fairuse-discuss@mrbrklyn.com; originally from James Love's
> > Random Bits list, random-bits@lists.essential.org)
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: YP Fun <ypinterest@yahoo.com>
> > 
> > 
> > fyi:
> > 
> > extension of IP copyrights from life+50 to life+70 in
> > response to EU's +20 extension.
> > 
> > >
> > > --- James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
> > > > From: James Love <james.love@cptech.org>
> > > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:15:19 -0400
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:13:37 -0400
> > > > From: Donna Wentworth <donna@cyber.law.harvard.edu>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In case you hadn't seen this...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT
> > > > PROPOSED RESOLUTION 301-1
> > > >
> > > > http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/summer2002/307.doc
> > > >
> > 
> > 
> > YP
> > 
> > =====
> > Please Copy...   Ideas deserve to be free.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > "A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth.  A
> > billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds
> > ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was
> > yesterday morning."
> > - Robert Goizueta, the late CEO of Coca-Cola, April 1997
> > 
> > ____________________________
> > New Yorkers for Fair Use -
> > because it's either fair use or useless....
> > 
> 
>