On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@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.