RE: petition for US authors, artists, and musicians

What a ridiculously vague petition.
Can anyone explain the point of it?
What change is that group looking for?
And who is the "Copyright Alliance"?  (Sorry, I didn't read the previous
messages in this string carefully enough.)
If they wanted to get rid of Digital Rights Management and cut back the
copyright term to something logical and reasonable, I'd be all for that.
Also, if they wanted to have different terms for books, movies, music, and
software (because they are very different kinds of products involving very
different kinds of investments) that would be great.
But the tone of the petition seems headed in the opposite direction.

Richard Seltzer, seltzer-LVbi7B8qMF5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected], 617-469-2269
http://www.samizdat.com, http://www.samizdat.com/blog,
http://twitter.com/richardseltzer
Book collections on CD and DVD http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/
Books for Amazon's Kindle http://www.samizdat.com/kindle
As featured in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/09conn.html






-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Lee Passey
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] petition for US authors, artists, and
musicians


Brenna Lyons wrote:

> Since DMA and copyright is so important to us... If you're not interested,
> please just flush it. If you are, pass it along!
>
> http://www.copyrightalliance.org/letter/index.php

Brenna--

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.

Thank you again.


------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------
Post a message:   ebook-community [[at]] *
Unsubscribe:      ebook-community-unsubscribe [[at]] *
Switch to digest: ebook-community-digest [[at]] *
Switch to normal: ebook-community-normal [[at]] *
Put mail on hold: ebook-community-nomail [[at]] *
Administrator:    ebook-community-owner [[at]] *

(* == yahoogroups.com)
-------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links





------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------
Post a message:   ebook-community [[at]] *
Unsubscribe:      ebook-community-unsubscribe [[at]] *
Switch to digest: ebook-community-digest [[at]] *
Switch to normal: ebook-community-normal [[at]] *
Put mail on hold: ebook-community-nomail [[at]] *
Administrator:    ebook-community-owner [[at]] *

(* == yahoogroups.com)
-------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:ebook-community-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    ebook-community-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/