RE: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

On 27 Jun 2003 at 16:14, Richard Hartman wrote:

Subject:        	RE: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill
Date sent:      	Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:14:38 -0700
From:           	"Richard Hartman" <hartman@onetouch.com>
To:             	<dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
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> Mere renwal won't get you any more than what
> you already have.  IOW, if you don't already
> own 90% of material under copyright, no amount
> of renewal of the material you do own will get
> you a greater percentage.

It will if you're willing to pay the $1 and give the owner $100

While this is a step in the right direction, this is not enough of a step I'm 
afraid.

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> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
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> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 2:32 PM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill
> > 
> > 
> > On 27 Jun 2003 at 9:02, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > Subject:        	RE: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill
> > Date sent:      	Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:02:11 -0700
> > From:           	"Richard Hartman" <hartman@onetouch.com>
> > To:             	<dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
> > Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
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> > > It would be quite difficult -- if not impossible -- for any single 
> > > organization to obtain exclusive rights to any significant 
> > > percentage of the mass of existing copyrightable material.
> > 
> > I don't know about that. If the renewal fee is $1 I could see 
> > Disney, Harper, 
> > McGrawHill, Houghton Mifflin....etc etc spending $10M/yr just 
> > on speculation. 
> > Especially if they get a tax deduction as a business expense.
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> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > -Richard M. Hartman 
> > > hartman@onetouch.com 
> > > 
> > > 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW! 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> > > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 7:56 AM
> > > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain Enhancement Bill
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The question was not that Disney owns idea but if Disney 
> > owns say 90% of
> > > copyrighted material, then practically nothing enters the 
> > PD. The question is if
> > > that is harmful? 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > >  Jeme A Brelin <jeme@brelin.net> 
> > > Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 06/26/2003 09:40 PM 
> > > Please respond to dvd-discuss 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >         To:        Openlaw DMCA Forum 
> > <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu> 
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> > >         Subject:        Re: [dvd-discuss] Public Domain 
> > Enhancement Bill
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> > > > And if Disney buys up a large percentage of copyright 
> > then you order
> > > > them to divest it under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. IANAL 
> > but a monopoly
> > > > is a monopoly isn't it and there is nothing that says that an
> > > > Intellectual Property Monopoly is exempt from the act is there?
> > > 
> > > Well, prosecuting anti-trust requires that one show not just that a
> > > monopoly exist, but that it is harmful.  That is not a 
> > foregone conclusion
> > > in the eyes of the law.
> > > 
> > > I also think it would be absurd to say that Disney has a monopoly on
> > > ideas.  No matter how many specific stories they own, it 
> > can always be
> > > said that there are more.
> > > 
> > > And if you simply mean that Disney would be monopolizing a 
> > particular
> > > idea, well, that's seemingly a Constitutionally allowed grant from
> > > Congress.
> > > 
> > > Oh, and Strom Thurmond is dead (thus completing the evil trilogy).
> > > 
> > > J.
> > > -- 
> > >   -----------------
> > >     Jeme A Brelin
> > >    jeme@brelin.net
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