Re: addictive

From: Ontix@aol.com
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 12:30:14 CEST

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    On the topic of copyright law, theres a great book out recently called
    copyrights and copywrongs by siva vaidhyanathan, i think thats how his name
    goes. but anyways, his thesis is basically that the scope of copyright has
    over time become so corporatized that it now damnedly outstretches its
    limited monopoly reach and is now diminishing the worlds civic culture.

    if anyone is interested to read up, especially any lawyers, im attaching a
    doc of a research project i created for an entertainment law class at
    ucberkeley. i never ran this thesis across a lawyer, but im curious: if the
    policy behind copyright is engraved in the constitutions as the decree that
    congress has the power to create limited monopolies "to promote the progress
    of the arts," how does it work that, for example, digital sampling as
    infringement is used as a deterrent to would be producers when everyone is
    using sampling to some degree? how is this preserving the progress of the
    art?





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