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date: 2003-06-04 16:18:34
subject: [writing2] Re: Online petition

Before you sign this, be carefully and thourghally informed.  There are
good reasons for congress to act as they have, and those reasons come from
the people working in tech and their fight with the cretive arts
communities. (just south of me in Silicon V
the corporate techies want to change a good percentage of copyright law so
that it can be place onthe web -- and the neither the author not his or her
heirs will collect royalities. (they call it "free informaion")
Some of this also covers material that c

>Check this out, folks.  An online petition to protect Public Domain. 
>At the time I signed it signatures were pouring in at the rate of one
>every few seconds.  I don't know what good it'll do but it felt good
>to sign it anyway.
>
>http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html
>
>=====
>Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be 
>banned because I might read it and it might be very 
>damaging to me"? --Joseph Henry Jackson
>
>From the Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver
>and The Encyclopedia Michael Nellis
>http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/index.html
>
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