Toby Bartels wrote:
As for brief quotations, well, I knew that the GNU licences would come back to bite us someday, but I expected 50 years from now (hopefully *after* current copyright law became impossible to maintain). I never thought they would prove to be inadequate so soon! Surely RMS thought of brief quotations, one hopes?
Yep. Copyright (and some other intellectual property law) is already close to impossible to maintain. With so many people on line the medium has indeed become the message. The greedheads (in Lord Buckley's terms) have screwed the golden calf in the ass. :-) I'm not surprised.
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