RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are superfluous

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On 24 Feb 2003 at 15:13, Richard Hartman wrote:

Subject:        	RE: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are superfluous
Date sent:      	Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:13:15 -0800
From:           	"Richard Hartman" <hartman@onetouch.com>
To:             	<dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
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> Since copyright for works with multiple
> authors is measured by life of the last
> surviving author ... what would stop me
> from crediting my son (currently 3 years
> old) as a "co author"?

Penmanship?

> 
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:18 PM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are
> > superfluous
> > 
> > 
> > All of which becomes self limiting if the term is 
> > short...."Fifty is nifty but 
> > 28 is great"
> > 
> > At this point maybe copyright should be for the lifetime of 
> > the author provided 
> > he keeps the copyright and that he can only lease it for a 
> > fixed term of say 7 
> > years. If he sells it it becomes a mere commodity and expires 
> > at the end of 28 
> > years.
> > 
> > I'm afraid that there will be no copyright reform until the 
> > copyright holders 
> > BEG for 50 flat and settle for 28yrs. Intellectual property 
> > has become 
> > intellectual slavery...
> > 
> > On 22 Feb 2003 at 11:41, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
> > 
> > Date sent:      	Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:41:02 -0500
> > Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents 
> > and copyrights are superfluous
> > From:           	Jeremy Erwin <jerwin@ponymail.com>
> > To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > 
> > > Some on this mailing list may be interested in and/or amused by a 
> > > recent Reason piece ( 
> http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml 
> > ), describing a recent economic paper (Boldrin and Levine. 2002, 
> > "Perfectly Competitive Innovation" , 
> > http://www.dklevine.com/papers/pci23.pdf ) that notes " Copyrights, 
> > patents, and similar government-granted rights serve only to reinforce 
> > monopoly control, with its attendant damages of inefficiently high 
> > prices, low quantities, and stifled future innovation,"
> > 
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> 
>