Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

On 9/12/07, Damien Pollet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Artificial limits like copyright might be necessary as a compromise,
> because the ideal solution is difficult to identify and probably even
> more to put in place, but they still don't make sense and will be
> bypassed.

Indeed.  And short-term prohibitions on verbatim copying that prevent
people from exploiting their first-to-market advantage (which was all
that the Copyright Act provided until 1907) are one thing,
century-long deathgrips on everything even vaguely connected
with the original quite another.

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