Comments on: Six copyright myths

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:06:16 +0000

Hi, Raymond: when you say “The first copyright law…”, do you mean the 6th century law? – if so, you have missed the point: copyright protects the work itself from being abused, the author or rights owner is simply the guardian of the rights. If that seem somewhat abstract to you, it’s probably because you are not a creator, rather a user of other creators’ works, and are probably irked by the seemingly – to you – unfair restrictions on your use of the works. Am I right? HK hugh.kearns@ireland.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:53:11 +0000

Even if you allow others to use your works for free nobody else can claim your work as their own and sell it for profit unless you let them.
As long as you can prove that you had the work before anyone else claims it, it is yours. There are many pdf documents on the internet that you are encouraged to share with others(for free) but you are not allowed to sell. If someone should try to profit from works you are trying to distribute for free just let loose a smart, hungry lawyer on them and they will soon regret the day they were ever born.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:46:03 +0000

Good question, read my Creative Commons Pardox article here: http://p2pnet.net/story/2947

Raymond Blijd

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:43:05 +0000

Dear Hugh,

Keep believing that if you will but read this:
The Promise of a Post-Copyright World by Karel Fogel [http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/writings/copyright.html ]

“The first copyright law was a censorship law. It had nothing to do with protecting the rights of authors, or encouraging them to produce new works. ”

Or read the EU Database law guidelines which protects investments not creations.

I rest my case

Raymond Blijd

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:29:24 +0000

Let’s say I create a collection of music that I want to sell to multimedia producers to use in their projects. If I then decided to give this collection away who is going to stop someone else from taking the collection and selling it as their own for profit? Or should I just let other people profit from my creations?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:51:53 +0000

Dear, oh, dear, Raymond, what a load of bollox – copyright is what it says it is – the right to copy; it is the legal right to copy original works of art, and it doesn’t protect anybody – it protects the work itself. Another thing – copyright didn’t begin in the 17th century, it was much earlier than that: the judgement of the High King of Ireland in the 6th century against the first recorded copier, Saint Colmcille was: “To every cow its calf, to every book its copy”. And nothing much has changed since. hugh.kearns@ireland.com