Comments on: James Joyce copyright battle http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11751 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11751/comment-page-1#comment-135934 Reader's Write Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:39:04 +0000 #comment-135934 This is a good example of how copyright laws and claims limit and sometimes destroy culture. As it is it is impossible to write a story or makes a movie about a recently dead author. Imagina e biograpgy movie about the great songwriter, Irving Berling, without any of his music in the movie? Perhaps no movie of Irving Berlin has been made because his mussic, even if composed 75 years ago, cannot be used because of unrealistic copyright duration terms and copyright abuse by copyright holders. It's time to rethink copyright laws. While this time reason prevailed, the next time aroud an author who would like to write about another author will decide not to write because of the hazzle and risks of being sued. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com This is a good example of how copyright laws and claims limit and sometimes destroy culture.

As it is it is impossible to write a story or makes a movie about a recently dead author. Imagina e biograpgy movie about the great songwriter, Irving Berling, without any of his music in the movie?

Perhaps no movie of Irving Berlin has been made because his mussic, even if composed 75 years ago, cannot be used because of unrealistic copyright duration terms and copyright abuse by copyright holders.

It’s time to rethink copyright laws.

While this time reason prevailed, the next time aroud an author who would like to write about another author will decide not to write because of the hazzle and risks of being sued.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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