From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 4 8:40:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5D937B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22139; Fri, 4 May 2001 09:40:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:40:02 -0600 To: Mike Meyer From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15090.51940.766447.783398@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:29 AM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Some of the examples have occured. You just need to look harder. You are being alarmist. Yes, there are some practices that have been in place for many years to ensure that libraries do not destroy publishers' markets, but none of these have particularly escalated. In fact, we in America are BEHIND the curve in terms of rights enforcement. In Europe and elsewhere, royalties are collected from copy machines and distributed to authors. This is not done in the US. I strongly recommend Jessica Litman's book, which is mentioned in the paper. It has a much better sense of perspective than you've displayed here. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message