RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are superfluous

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Great!  A real-life example for my hypothetical situation.
If they win, then the copyright on those songs will be
in force for a long, loong time.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Sanchez [mailto:DSANCHEZ@fcci-group.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are
> superfluous
> 
> 
> Overlawyered.com had a article about how James Brown's kids 
> are suing their father for royalties stating that when he 
> wrote the songs they contributed.  
> 
> "September 20-22 -- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it 
> is/To have a precociously musical child.  "James Brown's 
> daughters have filed a federal lawsuit against the Godfather 
> of Soul, seeking more than $1 million in back royalties and 
> damages for 25 songs they say they co-wrote.... Even though 
> they were children when the songs were written - 3 and 6 when 
> 'Get Up Offa That Thing' was a hit in 1976 - Brown's 
> daughters helped write them, said their attorney, Gregory 
> Reed."  ("Singer James Brown Sued by Daughters", AP/Milwaukee 
> Journal Sentinel, Sept. 18). 
> http://www.jsonline.com/enter/music/ap/sep02/ap-people-james-b
> r091802.asp "
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartman [mailto:hartman@onetouch.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:14 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are
> superfluous
> 
> 
> He speaks, I transcribe.  Next objection? ;-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> -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: 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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