Re: Re: will everyone concerned about copyright please read this

On 20/09/2011 21:50, Lee Passey wrote:
> On Tue, September 20, 2011 2:02 pm, Brenna Lyons wrote:
>
>    
>> If an author creates a world and
>> characters, he or she may still be writing in that world 20 years
>> later. He or she may be setting up gaming rights or movie rights near
>> the end of that time period, based on the audience built over decades
>> of writing in it. ... writers often continue to work in the created world,
>> with the same or connected characters, etc.
>>      
> Why can these concerns not be addressed by proper application of trademark
> law? There are lots of tools in the law's toolbelt -- its seems a bit
> ineffective to me to insist on using a crescent wrench to hammer on this
> particular nail.

Lee,

Unless I am mistaken trademarks are used to protect many characters and 
series titles. However it would be quite inadequate to the whole task. 
It depends on the outcome you want, of course, but for well written 
books in plethora the current copyright system has proved pretty good.

Big publishers, despite their bad press, have for centuries done a 
variably good job of getting books to market; an endeavour now 
substantially expanded by others thanks to new technologies. Booksellers 
have done tolerably well at bringing those books to an interested 
populace; and all the professionals who contribute to the exceedingly 
high standards of the profession have shown a range of abilities up to 
the very highest levels.

But quality comes at a cost; that cost is copyright. And no one has to 
buy a book, after all. So many do, the system and its products must be 
appreciated to have remained successful. I have never been really clear 
about your reasons for wanting to disrupt a business that has proved 
amazingly adaptable since the fifteenth century. The system was vastly 
improved by the Queen Anne Act, which introduced copyright and creator 
ownership, fundamentally the system of today, three centuries later.

The system  of Intellectual Property has nurtured other creative areas, 
such as film. And the protections of copyright there have enabled the 
creation of amazing spectacles - and amazingly expensive ones.

The list of gains from IP goes on. How do you  think all this would 
happen without it?

Joseph Harris


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