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

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So.... who do you propose that this will help?
>
> Anyone who wants to make a work and distribute it whether or not for profit.
>
>> What will be he benefit of this as you see it?
>
> Clarity of what is and is not going to get you sued.  Peace of mind
> that you're safe to make and distribute something.
>
>> This seems to mean that developers will have to pay to create open
>> source software.
>
> No.  They will have the option of paying if they want to sue people
> for damages resultant of infringing.  If they make money on their
> software themselves, they can afford to register it.  If they do not,
> there aren't any damages from someone else making money.
>

So if I make something, then in order for me to release it under the
GPL/BSD, I will have to pay? And this is a good thing?



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