Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V1 #182 (more on copyright)

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 16:04:16 EDT


on 9/7/01 4:04 PM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_home.com wrote:

> Now, I fully understand how sensitive people in the photographic and music
> industries are to copyright issues and I respect that. I, however,
> massively disagree with the concept that anyone should have the ability to
> squash the use of an idea for what is effectively an infinite amount of
> time.

Somebody once said that, to Americans a hundred years is a long time, and to
a Brit, a hundred miles is a long distance." Now, I see that 50 years is an
eternity!! :-) What in the world can a hundred years be? infinity squared?

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-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<mailto:jonglass_at_usa.net>
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