PD is a threat to young creators creativity (was: Re: [Upd-discuss] !@!Public Domain & Eminent Domain)

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

I would like to add something about a new attack on PD. It is just =20
beginning to rise here in France and I don't know much what it's =20
about in other countries.

This came from theater plays writers who begun to explain that PD =20
plays are a threat to their industry since the public these plays can =20=

be performed freely when theaters must pay new creators for their work.

They tend to present the amount of PD as a threat to their creativity =20=

(and of course they ask for taxes on PD plays).

This rethoric seems new to me. What about you ?

Le 25 juil. 05 =E0 18:04, Michael Hart a =E9crit :

>
> Is it as obvious to you as it is to me that there is a link between
> the recents attacks on the public via eminent domain are related in
> a close manner to the recents attacks via the public domain???
>
> *
>
> What appears to be happening is an organized effort to deprive us the
> public of their rights, both in terms of property of the "real estate
> variety" and property of the "intellectual property variety."
>
> Powers that have been with the public since time immemorial now being
> diverted, inverted, perverted to give the state more power at expense
> of the public.
>
> This gives a whole new meaning to "The Tragedy of the Commons," as it
> moves from commonly held property to personally held property, each in
> the case of property rights that have been handed down from generation
> to generation longer than any of these goverment offices have existed.
>
>
> "At this rate, the more we work, the poorer we get!"
>
>
> Are the George Bushs the new Prince Johns?
>
>
>
> Michael
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