Here's an apropos quote:
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in
this country the notion that because a man or a
corporation has made a profit out of the public for a
number of years , the government and the courts are
charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in
the future, even in the face of changing circumstances
and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is
not supported by statute nor common law. Neither
individuals nor corporations have any right to come
into court and ask that the clock of history be
stopped ,or turned back, for their private benefit.
-- Life-Line, Robert Heinlein
brandon
http://www.resynthesize.com/
quoted 19 lines --- andrij <andrij@misrule.org> wrote:
> --- andrij <andrij@misrule.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 20:24:19 -0000,
> > info@noiseloop.com wrote:
> > >You are ignoring copyright which is not a force
> of
> > nature but
> > >a historically recent law constructed with the
> > purpose of
> > >allowing businesses like record labels to exist.
> >
> > If copyright law was designed to allow for a
> > business structure
> > such as the current music industry to exist,
> > copyright law is
> > seriously flawed and should be wholely rethought
> > from the
> > ground up.
> > --
> > andrij.
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