Re: petition for US authors, artists, and musicians

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Lee Passey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the link. Like you, I am appalled by the efforts of those
> with vested interests which attempt to expand the scope of copyright
> beyond the constitutional recommendation to grant limited monopolies
> only to the degree necessary to "promote the Progress of Science and
> useful Arts."
>
> You can be assured that I will contact my congressional delegation and
> encourage them to resist caving in to the efforts of special interest
> organizations like the Copyright Alliance.

It's probably the fact that it's 7:15 a.m. and I haven't gone to bed
yet, but I keep thinking this is one of the funniest things I've seen
in a while.

I'm sort of on the fence about the whole thing: the settlement as
proposed has a number of serious flaws, but on the other hand at least
it's a step in the right direction in terms of dealing with orphaned
works. And I'm awfully suspicious when Microsoft and Amazon go around
wearing halos (especially after Microsoft gave up on a similar
book-scanning project of its own when it turned out to be too
expensive. Do I detect a hint of sour grapes in Microsoft's whine?).
But it appears that the Department of Justice's screed was the straw
that broke the camel's back, and all parties are returning to the
negotiating tables for Round 2—so in the end, it's all academic for
now. Maybe the next iteration will piss off fewer people.

Of course, if the best that the Copyright Alliance can manage is
"slacktivism" like e-petitions (which most agree aren't worth the
paper they aren't printed on), then those siding with Google don't
have a lot to worry about regardless.

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