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CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage
goosman writes "The president of the International Jack Benny Fan Club had the opportunity to review some holdings of the CBS vaults while assisting them with some transfers. In the vaults she found 25 shows on film that were unreleased, but in the public domain. The IJBFC offered to pay for the digitization and preservation of these shows; they got a letter of enthusiastic support from the Benny estate. CBS has so far refused to allow this preservation to happen." BoingBoing and TechDirt have both covered this act of cultural destruction.
The thing is that they never distributed them.
Irrelevant.
That's like saying that Abraham Lincoln's estate is legally required to make all of his private journals available to you.
What the fuck is the colour of the sky in your world? You really think that private material is exactly the same as something that was written to be public, performed in public, and intended to be broadcast?!?!? You're a fucking moron.
think that it would be dangerous to Force people to make their out-of-copyright works available.
Only because you're a moron who has no concept of the purpose of copyright, which is to enhance our culture. It fucking says is right in your constitution, for fucks sake!
Copyright provides powerful tools to entities to control their creative works, but some protection is needed afterwards.
Bullshit. You're just a fucking moron who has no idea of what he's talking about.