actually fair use covers that: if you want a copy of something, and make a reasonable effort to buy it, but can't find it, or can't find the copyright owner, or can't get it for a reasonable price (say, it's locked in a vault in hollywood, or someone's house, and they won't sell for less than $500), but your friend has a copy or the local library has a copy, you can then make a copy under the fair use provision of copyright law.
How about limited copyright for corporate holders?
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The problem with copyright is that original creators are rarely the copyright owners for profitable content. You create something, but to get it visible you need someone to "market" it: hello, content provider. Quid pro quo? you give them your copyright.
How about a very simple change to copyright: the DMCA will apply to humans, not to legal fictional entities such as corporations.
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Right. This is war - let's slashdot their websites.
Now MAP has pinned that down to 13.7 billion years, give or take 0.2 billion years.
Well, it's nice to see we're getting close.
no, +/- six months after the next "patch"
oh, wait, that's a different effect.
I thought it was just my MAC.
I just have to buy the DVD's again, not the player?
actually fair use covers that: if you want a copy of something, and make a reasonable effort to buy it, but can't find it, or can't find the copyright owner, or can't get it for a reasonable price (say, it's locked in a vault in hollywood, or someone's house, and they won't sell for less than $500), but your friend has a copy or the local library has a copy, you can then make a copy under the fair use provision of copyright law.
The problem with copyright is that original creators are rarely the copyright owners for profitable content. You create something, but to get it visible you need someone to "market" it: hello, content provider. Quid pro quo? you give them your copyright.
How about a very simple change to copyright: the DMCA will apply to humans, not to legal fictional entities such as corporations.