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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Noob wrote:

> Walter Banks wrote:
>
> > Distribution control of my property. Financial and promotional
> > choices are mine not theirs. Maybe I want to distribute material
> > to my customers for free as a reward for customer loyalty.
>
> And this irrational power trip (multiplied ten thousand fold
> for media corporations) is EXACTLY why many old records,
> movies, and books are now forever lost, because the last copy
> was destroyed in a fire, flood, earthquake (pick your poison).
>
> Once an "original work" reaches a certain status in the
> collective mind of society, it no longer belongs to its
> creator, it belongs to everyone who has invested "mind
> share" in it.

This is also the rational of time limited protection to eventually
allow material to be widely available at some point. Until you
reach that point then it should be distributed according to
the wishes of the IP owner.

If you look at what I have written over the years I am in favor
of  this time protection for software to be similar to patent
protections. Other material may have different appropriate
time periods.

Registered copyrights have preserved the last copy of huge
amount of material, especially old movies. The Library of
Congress copyright copy has been the last copy of many
old works.

Far from an "irrational power trip" ,an insulting comment, there
is copyright material on my companies website (books and
papers) that is free for anyone to download or provide links to,
we do not wish to have this material to be available from other
websites.

Walter Banks