Comments for Christopher Leger http://christopherleger.com/wordpress Intellectual Property, Individual Rights, and Technology Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:21:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Time for copyright reform? by Anonymous http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/time-for-copyright-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Anonymous Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:21:20 +0000 http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/time-for-copyright-reform/#comment-7 Great start!!! Compulsory licenses for all uses set from day one, with fees to content owners based on a "percentage of income the use generates" since the markeplace determines the value. This could even include fair use since it offers incentive for expanding copyright to the benefit of everyone from new and expanding uses and "promotes the progress of science and useful art" for the end user as wel Great start!!!
Compulsory licenses for all uses set from day one, with fees to content owners based on a “percentage of income the use generates” since the markeplace determines the value. This could even include fair use since it offers incentive for expanding copyright to the benefit of everyone from new and expanding uses and “promotes the progress of science and useful art” for the end user as wel

]]> Comment on Time for copyright reform? by Randal L. Schwartz http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/time-for-copyright-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Randal L. Schwartz Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:32:16 +0000 http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/time-for-copyright-reform/#comment-6 I agree. 120 years is far too long. Oddly enough, Disney wouldn't have the works of the Brothers Grimm if the brothers had taken the same attitude toward locking their work in perpetuity that Disney has taken to "protecting the mouse". And then where would Disney be, without Snow White and most of the other traditional tales? I also support an even shorter term, in this modern age. I would argue that 7 years is plenty. If you can't make an ROI for an information product or an act of creativity in 7 years, you're playing "starving artist" and not "commercial artist", and probably wouldn't have made any money in the next 7 years either. But here's where I'll disagree with you. No fees to extend it. Just forbid extending it. The moment you introduce a fee system, *someone* will find a creative accounting scheme to show that there was no money made by an item, or so little that it would be trivial to "renew" for a much longer time. Seven years is plenty. Then public domain. For everything. If it's a play, the original performers will still be sought after as having the most experience. If it's a book, enough people will have read it by then. As a transition, 14 years would also seem to work ok. But eventually, it should become seven years from date of first publication. Period. I agree. 120 years is far too long.

Oddly enough, Disney wouldn’t have the works of the Brothers Grimm if the brothers had taken the same attitude toward locking their work in perpetuity that Disney has taken to “protecting the mouse”. And then where would Disney be, without Snow White and most of the other traditional tales?

I also support an even shorter term, in this modern age. I would argue that 7 years is plenty. If you can’t make an ROI for an information product or an act of creativity in 7 years, you’re playing “starving artist” and not “commercial artist”, and probably wouldn’t have made any money in the next 7 years either.

But here’s where I’ll disagree with you. No fees to extend it. Just forbid extending it. The moment you introduce a fee system, *someone* will find a creative accounting scheme to show that there was no money made by an item, or so little that it would be trivial to “renew” for a much longer time.

Seven years is plenty. Then public domain. For everything. If it’s a play, the original performers will still be sought after as having the most experience. If it’s a book, enough people will have read it by then.

As a transition, 14 years would also seem to work ok. But eventually, it should become seven years from date of first publication. Period.

]]> Comment on is this the future of small networks? by Christopher Leger http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Christopher Leger Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:13:09 +0000 http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/#comment-5 The man, the myth, the legend! I'm honored you read my post Marc! I also plan on writing a post about the podcast you did about <a href="http://www.twit.tv/fib21" rel="nofollow">DCA</a> at the <a href="http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/" rel="nofollow">University of Alberta with Dr. Evangelos Michelakis</a>. I honestly think that was the podcast of the year, and should be required listening for virtually everyone. The man, the myth, the legend! I’m honored you read my post Marc! I also plan on writing a post about the podcast you did about DCA at the University of Alberta with Dr. Evangelos Michelakis. I honestly think that was the podcast of the year, and should be required listening for virtually everyone.

]]> Comment on is this the future of small networks? by Marc Pelletier http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Marc Pelletier Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:53 +0000 http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/#comment-4 Apple's Xgrid does a pretty decent job.. http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/xgrid.html folding at home is definitely a great proof of concept for distributed computing... Apple’s Xgrid does a pretty decent job..

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/xgrid.html

folding at home is definitely a great proof of concept for distributed computing…

]]> Comment on is this the future of small networks? by ML http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-3 ML Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:41:21 +0000 http://christopherleger.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/is-this-the-future-of-small-networks/#comment-3 Hasn't this networking technology been out there for a long time? Isn't this how they worked on the Human Genome project? Hasn’t this networking technology been out there for a long time? Isn’t this how they worked on the Human Genome project?

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