[A2k] Copyright Should Encourage Derivative Works

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Of course this makes perfect sense.  Now that yet again recognized,
one has to wonder why organizations like Big Pharma, the RIAA,
the MPAA, and even a significant segment of our elected officials,
for example can't or won't recognize such.

See: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3D09/07/03/1528259

Techdirt has an interesting look at copyright and the idea that an
author is the originator of a new work. Instead, the piece suggests that
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090629/0230145396.shtml all
works are in some way based on the works of others (even our own
copyright law), and the system should be much more encouraging of
"remixing" work into new, unique experiences. "Friedman also points back
to another recent post where he discusses the nature of content
creation, based on a blog post by Rene Kita. In it, she points out that
remixing and creating through collaboration and building on the works
of others has always been the norm. It's what we do naturally. It's only
in the last century or so, when we reached a means of recording,
manufacturing and selling music =97 which was limited to just those with
the machinery and capital to do it, that copyright was suddenly brought
out to 'protect' such things."

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