From: Adam 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> I think this goes overboard with the "All non-commercial copying an use
> should be completely free". What, should no-one have to pay for any
> recordings, books, movies or anything like that, at all? Somehow I just
> don't see how it would work...
>

It's about as silly as copyright terms exceeding the possible lifespan of
an author but hey....ain't that law in the states now?

Adam

>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Randy"  wrote in message
news:44879a8a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> (from boingboing.net:)
>>
>> Brent Allison, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, has founded
>> an American branch of Sweden's "Pirate Party," a
political party dedicated
>> to copyright reform:
>>
>>     All non-commercial copying and use should be completely free. File
>> sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized.
>> Culture and knowledge are good things, that increase in value the more
>> they are shared. The Internet could become the greatest public library
>> ever created.
>>
>>     The monopoly for the copyright holder to exploit an aesthetic work
>> commercially should be limited to five years after publication. Today's
>> copyright terms are simply absurd. Nobody needs to make money seventy
>> years after he is dead. No film studio or record company bases its
>> investment decisions on the off-chance that the product would be of
>> interest to anyone a hundred years in the future. The commercial life of
>> cultural works is staggeringly short in today's world. If you haven't made
>> your money back in the first one or two years, you never will. A five
>> years copyright term for commercial use is more than enough.
>> Non-commercial use should be free from day one.
>>
>>     We also want a complete ban on DRM technologies, and on contract
>> clauses that aim to restrict the consumers' legal rights in this area.
>> There is no point in restoring balance and reason to the legislation, if
>> at the same time we continue to allow the big media companies to both
>> write and enforce their own arbitrary laws.
>
>

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