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Subject:    Re: [DMCA_Discuss] This week's Doonesbury [It's All About Distribution, Stupid!]
From:       tom poe <tompoe () renonevada ! net>
Date:       2002-03-29 1:22:06
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On Thursday 28 March 2002 15:38, Morgan wrote:
> If you haven't seen it, this week concerns a conflict between
> Mike Doonsbury & his daughter over the moral/legal quagmire that
> is file sharing.
>
> http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.htm
>
>
> What bugs me is that he's fallen in the "copyright is a property
> right" trap.  Copyright is legally a temporary monopoly on
> distribution.  Even colloquially, I don't think copyright
> infringment resonated as "stealing" (except maybe of software,
> thanks in part to Bill Gates re: copying Microsoft BASIC in the
> bad old days) until Bruce Lehman wrote the Green, then the White
> Papers, then the DMCA.
>
> You can be a creative artist that relies on and celebrates the
> protection of copyright without jumping on the "property"
> bandwagon with Michael Eisner.
>
> I guess it's worse when Barbara Boxer, a legislator who's
> supposed to know how laws work says about filesharing "stealing
> is stealing" than when a cartoonist does it, but I used to have
> more respect for Trudeau as an independent thinker.

Hi:  You make good points.  I need reminders like this.  We have yet another 
excellent rallying cry, "It's all about distribution, stupid!"

Thanks,
Tom
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