From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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...


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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