War on Knowledge
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ishtat
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Hey, Ishtat! I resemble those remarks!
Amicus Meritas Veritas(heh)
Ah, but it was too tempting to pass up the chance of targeting you and SR71plt with the same bullet.
Pure
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note to penn lady
penn.I'm with SR71. I'll take whatever books, news, etc., I can legally get for free. When they start requiring payment, I shall decide the best use of my money. I do not give all of my stuff away for free, nor do I expect others to.
thanks for stopping by. on the thread topic of access to old public domain material, sequestered by the Royal Society and sold out at their prices, sr71 never really took a stand. neither did he take a stand on Maxwell's act of uploading such apparently legally obtained material (in massive amounts), to Pirate Bay. so you can't really be "with" him.
even the alleged "theft" issue, mentioned by sr71, is not being pursued by Ithaka, against Swartz, nor, i predict, by the Royal Society or Ithaka, against Maxwell.
sr71 favorite topic of protection for living authors and assigns was simply injected into the thread for his personal reasons; his attempt to set up an issue on which he and i allegedly differ. in fact i favor copyright law, such as in Britain (life of author plus 50 years) and secured computers and their databases. you and i and "with him" so to say, on the mainstream idea of copyright protections adapted to the peculiarities of information and communication technology, e.g. digital storage and data transmission etc.
penn.I'm with SR71. I'll take whatever books, news, etc., I can legally get for free. When they start requiring payment, I shall decide the best use of my money. I do not give all of my stuff away for free, nor do I expect others to.
thanks for stopping by. on the thread topic of access to old public domain material, sequestered by the Royal Society and sold out at their prices, sr71 never really took a stand. neither did he take a stand on Maxwell's act of uploading such apparently legally obtained material (in massive amounts), to Pirate Bay. so you can't really be "with" him.
even the alleged "theft" issue, mentioned by sr71, is not being pursued by Ithaka, against Swartz, nor, i predict, by the Royal Society or Ithaka, against Maxwell.
sr71 favorite topic of protection for living authors and assigns was simply injected into the thread for his personal reasons; his attempt to set up an issue on which he and i allegedly differ. in fact i favor copyright law, such as in Britain (life of author plus 50 years) and secured computers and their databases. you and i and "with him" so to say, on the mainstream idea of copyright protections adapted to the peculiarities of information and communication technology, e.g. digital storage and data transmission etc.
PennLady
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Well, if the Royal Society is holding public domain documents "hostage," then someone should take them to task. Unless there was some sort of copyright extension, they should release them. That, however, doesn't excuse how they were obtained, but that is a different issue.
SA Penn Lady, exactly. Secure the exclusive use of their ideas and inventions to authors and inventors for a limited time, to encourage them, and then make those useful (and enjoyable) ideas and inventions available to everyone. Ben Franklin and the Philadelphia guys had the right idea.
