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[News] How Copyrights Harm/Cost Free Software

  • Subject: [News] How Copyrights Harm/Cost Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:31:22 +0000
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Copyright and Confirmation Bias

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| Copyright costs the community.  That cost 
| is never factored into any copyright policy 
| â at least, so far as I have been able to 
| tell.  Most recently, the prohibition on 
| parallel importing of books is an obvious 
| example.  The Productivity Commission put 
| out a report which set out, in bare, 
| incontrovertible terms, the damage that 
| this particular aspect of copyright does to 
| the community.  After a long period of 
| merciless lobbying the proposals to remove 
| the anti-consumer restrictions on parallel 
| importing have been defeated (ironically, 
| the report was criticised for being 
| considered analysis, it was even expanded 
| to cover some of the criticisms of it).
`----

http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/copyright-and-confirmation-bias/


Recent:

Gershwin Heirs Fight Over Copyright Royalties

,----[ Quote ]
| The heirs of George and Ira Gershwin (the
| famous songwriting brothers) were leaders
| (right alongside Disney) in the fight for
| copyright extension a decade ago. They
| insisted that it wasn't about the money, but
| about making sure that their work wasn't
| presented in a way of which they disapproved
| ("Someone could turn 'Porgy and Bess' into
| rap music" was the complaint from Mark
| Gershwin, conveniently ignoring that much of
| the Gershwin's work pulled concepts from
| African American music). Yet, if it's not
| about money, why are the Gershwin heirs
| suddenly involved in legal battles all about
| who gets the money?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091102/0401476761.shtml
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