Playing Fair with Copyright
- From: <jrusk@[redacted]>
- Subject: Playing Fair with Copyright
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:53:31 -0500
I too am very disappointed, but not surprised, by the recent
ruling. Steven Levy has an interesting article in the
current "Newsweek" that echos many ideas that I've read
here.
This is on p. 60 of the Feb 26, 2001 issue:
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Lee Tien believes that
the content industries will eventually use the laws
[Millennium Copyright Act and others] to create even more
controls over creative works, engineering a pay-per-view
model for all forms of intellectual property. Instead of
buying a record or a book and enjoying it as often as you
like, he says, you might wind up having to fork over bucks
every time you reread the book or replay the tune."
Levy ends on an optimistic note, saying that Americans will
not stand for this kind of greed. Imagine, he says, if all
62 million Napster users wrote their congress-people!
I have a more negative view. Greed will win.