[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Mon Oct 16 13:55:10 UTC 2006

On 10/16/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In opposition to any effort this $100 million could possibly generate, the
> entire media industry is arrayed with a variety of well established lobby
> groups to ensure no such change takes place. It is resonable to suspect that
> the only changes to the law will be to increase the length of time for
> protections, while at the same time removing existing user rights.

I was not suggesting that any or all of the money we are talking about
be used for that purpose; knowing a bit more of the specifics of this
proposal, I doubt that this would happen (though it might be worth
asking). But this attitude of utter resignation is pitiful. Humanity
has fought greater evil than excessive copyright terms, and prevailed.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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