While the "Orphaned Works" concept isn't officially in the works yet, you have to admit its unsettling. If you really think about it, the way American legislation currently works is to refine old laws to make new loopholes.
If your mom wants to get her photos retouched and can't, due to old laws, tell her to get some freeware version of photoshop and do it herself. Learning new things like that helps prevent senility anyways.
The government isn't going to be able to tap out the kinks in such an idea, though they may pass it anyways as is often the case; I think this is where most of the fear over the matter stems from.
Mark Simon may have take a paranoid propagandistic approach to the issue, but the fact that he's successfully drawing a stir from the art community is a good thing, we should all be paying attention to the issue.
Your faith in the legal system is admirable, though entirely foolhardy in the same breath... Unless you're just yammering to prove someone else wrong and boost your own self-esteem, which seems to be the case. You don't seem to be analyzing Simon's article with a fine-tooth comb to illuminate the truth of the entire, but rather with something more akin to a steak knife.
I won't be back to read your reply, so take what wisdom, or fuel for your rage, that you want from this and internalize it.
Have a good day, and do know that your article was still informative in many regards, though you probably already know that.
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Date: 2008-05-07 09:24 pm (UTC)If your mom wants to get her photos retouched and can't, due to old laws, tell her to get some freeware version of photoshop and do it herself. Learning new things like that helps prevent senility anyways.
The government isn't going to be able to tap out the kinks in such an idea, though they may pass it anyways as is often the case; I think this is where most of the fear over the matter stems from.
Mark Simon may have take a paranoid propagandistic approach to the issue, but the fact that he's successfully drawing a stir from the art community is a good thing, we should all be paying attention to the issue.
Your faith in the legal system is admirable, though entirely foolhardy in the same breath... Unless you're just yammering to prove someone else wrong and boost your own self-esteem, which seems to be the case. You don't seem to be analyzing Simon's article with a fine-tooth comb to illuminate the truth of the entire, but rather with something more akin to a steak knife.
I won't be back to read your reply, so take what wisdom, or fuel for your rage, that you want from this and internalize it.
Have a good day, and do know that your article was still informative in many regards, though you probably already know that.