Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:47:43 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523114529.050bbd30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010523092559.B95221@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010522120432.04599e20@localhost> <20010522181937.I51400@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010522120432.04599e20@localhost>
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At 01:25 AM 5/23/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >To quote from that chapter, second paragraph: > > Copyright laws become obsolete when technology renders the > assumptions on which they were based outmoded. That has happened with > increasing frequency since Congress enacted the its first copyright > law in 1790. Copyright laws have been revised continuously since that time. However, she is correct in that technology has made it far too easy to violate copyright holders' rights. And Napster and its members were (and, to some extent, still are) doing it with abandon. >It goes on to give examples through history -- piano rolls, for >example, which appeared in the 19th century. Does that fit with >your definition of "current"? Just one of many examples of situations in which the law needed to be modified to account for technology. So? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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