To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
Such treaties are not put together by elected officials, but appointed diplomats, often with tremendous input (to the point of allowing them to write the details) from industries that are protected. Then, once those treaties are in place, copyright maximalists just get to sit back and say "but we must make our copyright laws stronger if we ever expect to live up to our international obligations
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4 posted on
10/16/2009 12:25:58 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: djsherin
Bump - another prime example here.
5 posted on
10/16/2009 12:29:19 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: antiRepublicrat
6 posted on
10/16/2009 12:29:41 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: bamahead
Art was better before copyright. Copyright art is lowest common denominator art.
“Free-thinking artists” used to actually be free thinkers, like freepers. Not the mindless leftbots of today.
7 posted on
10/16/2009 12:49:48 PM PDT by
chuck_the_tv_out
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