[LINK] Digital copyright: it's all wrong

[Antony Barry]

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> From: info at caslon.com.au
> Date: 10 June 2008 3:48:09 PM
> To: link at mailman1.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Digital copyright: it's all wrong
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>> Mmm,
>>
>> I started having problems with copyright when:
>>
>> a) Hollywood copyrighted classic English works of fiction (Bronte
>> Sisters et alia) simply because they had done a film based on them.
>
> Except that of course Hollywood (or Bollywood) has not copyrighted  
> those works. It hasn't copyrighted the plots or the words in the  
> Bronte novels (or in Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, The Bible, Das  
> Kapital etc).
>
> The copyright instead relates to musical scores (original or  
> licensed), the performance of the score, the script, the succession  
> of images we call a cinematograph film etc
>
> That bundle of copyrights relates to the very considerable  
> investment required to make a succession of feature films.
>
> It also - and heaven forbid we should actually respect creativity -  
> relates to recognition of the creators ... the scriptwriter,  
> composer etc, not all of whom can/want to make a living busking or  
> as an academic
>
> If we're going to denounce copyright, let's do so on an informed  
> basis rather than resorting to digital jingoism such as "it's all  
> wrong"
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