From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 19:51:30 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> (Those of you watching from the bleachers should note that I am
> *for* legal support for patents and copyrights -- presumably a
> non-libertinarian perspective. But in contrast to current trends
> I am for a gradual shortening of copyright/patent protections to
> accelerate the transfer of information into the public domain.
> The reasons for this are two-fold -- (a) it reduces the length oftime
> during which advanced technology is only available to the "elite" and
> not the "masses" and (b) it forces industry to become ever more
> innovative [which seems compatible with the singularity]).
I have the same opinion. The constitution says patents and copyrights
should be granted for a 'limited period'. Granting them for the
entirety of an artists life is not "limited" in any way.
Now, on the other hand, for those claiming that those in support of the
Bono Act are just one hand of the US cultural dominance of the world
and exposing why globalization is a bad thing, I would note that the
Bono Act was simply bringing US IP law into equality with IP laws in
the other GATT signatory nations. If anybody is the bad guy here, it is
the rest of the world.
Mike Lorrey
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