Then you are not the author but he is...go for it! Let's give 155yrs of copyright protection to the transcriptions of a 3 year old! Now that's real progress.
"Richard Hartman" <hartman@onetouch.com> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
02/25/2003 09:13 AM
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He speaks, I transcribe. Next objection? ;-)
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-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 5:24 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are
> superfluous
>
>
> On 24 Feb 2003 at 15:13, Richard Hartman wrote:
>
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine:
> patents and copyrights are superfluous
> Date sent: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:13:15 -0800
> From: "Richard Hartman" <hartman@onetouch.com>
> To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
> Send reply to: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
>
> > Since copyright for works with multiple
> > authors is measured by life of the last
> > surviving author ... what would stop me
> > from crediting my son (currently 3 years
> > old) as a "co author"?
>
> Penmanship?
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Richard M. Hartman
> > hartman@onetouch.com
> >
> > 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:18 PM
> > > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and
> copyrights are
> > > superfluous
> > >
> > >
> > > All of which becomes self limiting if the term is
> > > short...."Fifty is nifty but
> > > 28 is great"
> > >
> > > At this point maybe copyright should be for the lifetime of
> > > the author provided
> > > he keeps the copyright and that he can only lease it for a
> > > fixed term of say 7
> > > years. If he sells it it becomes a mere commodity and expires
> > > at the end of 28
> > > years.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid that there will be no copyright reform until the
> > > copyright holders
> > > BEG for 50 flat and settle for 28yrs. Intellectual property
> > > has become
> > > intellectual slavery...
> > >
> > > On 22 Feb 2003 at 11:41, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
> > >
> > > Date sent: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:41:02 -0500
> > > Subject: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents
> > > and copyrights are superfluous
> > > From: Jeremy Erwin <jerwin@ponymail.com>
> > > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > > Send reply to: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > >
> > > > Some on this mailing list may be interested in and/or
> amused by a
> > > > recent Reason piece (
> > http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml
> > > ), describing a recent economic paper (Boldrin and Levine. 2002,
> > > "Perfectly Competitive Innovation" ,
> > > http://www.dklevine.com/papers/pci23.pdf ) that notes "
> Copyrights,
> > > patents, and similar government-granted rights serve only
> to reinforce
> > > monopoly control, with its attendant damages of
> inefficiently high
> > > prices, low quantities, and stifled future innovation,"
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> >
> >
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