Semi-OT: Congress about to limit artists' copyright rights

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jeffrey Watts
> <jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> ...  Those
>> people might not have aspirations of selling millions of CDs or lots
>> of lithographs, but that doesn't mean that someone else should steal
>> their labor and mass market it at their expense.  It's THEIR WORK.
>
> So, uh, that means they should be able to just squander it?  Meanwhile
> other people who independantly make something similar are either out
> of luck if they do want to sell it?  It's THEIR WORK after all...
>
>> This kind of bullshit bill basically says that your work is not  yours
>> unless you pay a fee to someone else who has the right to charge that
>> fee because they paid off a legislator.
>
> No.  It basically says, if you have a *reason* to want copyright, you
> can have it.  It says that if you actually don't want people
> infringing on your rights, they will be able to avoid it or contact
> you to negotiate licensing.

So.... who do you propose that this will help? What will be he benefit
of this as you see it?

This seems to mean that developers will have to pay to create open
source software.

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