Re: [digital-copyright] Re: Reproducing visual art

["Robert Thomas Hayes Link" <rl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon:

Thanks for the name drop.

You wrote, "...to treat copyright-encumbered culture as if it doesn't
exist, to leave it out of our lectures, our scholarship, etc. would
be a huge injustice to culture."

Then let's get to changing the laws which make it dangerous, but don't
pretend there is no avoidable risk, by which I mean threats to liberty
of person as well as property of institutions, when using content not
actually and literally free for the use in question, as every DVD
reminds one in clear and certain terms.

Becoming competent in obtaining actual permission is not so hard as to
place the 20th century beyond the grasp of the sincere and determined.
It is probably a better investment of one's time than trying to guess
the outcome of suits that need not be provoked.

ymmv & iaMl

Peace,

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