On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:20:51PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 cfm@maine.com wrote: > > Brandon's arguments are based on the reasoning of the Founding Fathers <whine>Whose arguments?</whine> > > when they first put together US. Copyright was given by the government > > to the artist to encourage creations so that the commonwealth would > > benefit as the work became available without restrictions after a > > LIMITED time. The deal was "to promote growth of science, etc... which > > benefit us all we'll give you (copy)rights for a limited time" after > > which work became public domain. > > >From the utilitarian viewpoint, I quite agree, and it seems from the above > that in the USA copyright was granted for utilitarian reasons and can be > changed when circumstances change. I freely admit that my reasoning is predicated on a Lockean contract theory of government. There is no such thing as a government without a set of individuals to participate in it, just like any other social organization. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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