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