[nylug-talk] silly DMCA tricks

[Mordy Ovits]

On Friday 02 May 2003 01:49 pm, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > There is no
> > principled way to argue for a fundamental "right" not to have things you
> > utter ever uttered by others, and in fact something that we *do*
> > recognize as a fundamental right, freedom of speech, is exactly counter
> > to the law of copyright.
>
> This damages your argument, because copyright doesn't grant protection
> for anyone's every utterance.  What it does cover is the writer of the
> utterance, the person who recorded an utterance, etc.  But anyone
> else can say the same thing.

Copyright covers books too, not just sound.  Just because I retype your book 
w/ a new layout and font doesnt mean it's my copyright now, so I *can't* say 
the same thing.

Michael is right that copyright is a more artificial right than the "natural" 
ones.  That's why normal property law wasn't enough.

Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Security
Bloomberg L.P.