From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:44:28 -0800

Well, maybe so, but I would think (and hope) that the matter of
copyright trumps the social concerns you appear to be alluding to.
It's a hard thing to have your rights taken away because they are
inconvenient to someone else.

Joe Esposito

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:43 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Sean Andrews <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:49:42 -0600
>
> > From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:44:03 -0800
> >
> > Much to argue over on this issue, and people will argue, but it does
> > in the end seem to me to be a contract dispute, not a broader issue of
> > copyright.
>
> But these two things are not mutually exclusive: it becomes an issue
> of copyright as a social and cultural norm if the internecine web of
> contracts makes it impossible to create any legal and economically
> sustainable (both in energy and money) to create a business or
> distribution system using current technological possibilities.  In any
> case, this is a very interesting development, if only to expose
> another layer of ambiguity in this situation.
>
> Thanks for your comments and for David's passing it along.
>
> Sean