RE: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill

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

Heck, it'd still be pretty darned hard to get any
significant percentage of material under copyright
for that matter.  That's a _lot_ of material!


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

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeme A Brelin [mailto:jeme@brelin.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:55 AM
> To: Openlaw DMCA Forum
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> > The question was not that Disney owns idea but if Disney 
> owns say 90% of
> > copyrighted material, then practically nothing enters the PD. The
> > question is if that is harmful?
> 
> To state more directly what Richard put very clearly and 
> subtley:  Disney
> may, at some point, own 90% of COPYRIGHTED material, but that 
> is always an
> insignificant percentage of COPYRIGHTABLE material.
> 
> At least, the prevailing theory is that human thought and 
> expression is
> infinite.
> 
> J.
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