[LINK] E-books said to be "utterly unneeded"

[Tony Barry]

At 5:16 PM +0930 9/8/01, Jenny Millea wrote:
>  > copy protection is an attempt to infringe on the fair use rights that
>>  all purchasers of copyrighted works have.
>
>I think that's what people say who are not involved in creating a creative
>work from scratch. (no offence meant)

A document you cannot quote from is not worth having and the author 
of such a work is not part of any ongoing communication process.

>Not legally, but ethically. A decision has been made that that behaviour is
>'legal'. Doesn't mean it's right. Or fair. Or should continue.

Copyright is as much about the community's right to know as the 
author/publisher's right to reward. Both need to be served. If 
communication is too restricted it is strangled and dies.

Tony
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