Re: [ARSCLIST] The Incompetence at ENHS

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Mike Loughlin wrote:
> I hope I can stop your head from itching. First off, the Sonny Bono act 
> did not come from any desire of the American people, who were plenty 
> content with the copyright laws as they were. It is not a tricky 
> "conspiracy theory" it is a very simple straight line from Sonny Bono, a 
> man sent to congress by the entertainment industry to do their bidding. 
> The Sonny Bono act was a piece of legislation primarily to protect the 
> interest of The Disney Corporation, a company that was founded on the 
> character of "Alice" from Alice in Wonderland,

While I concur on the tenor of Mike's post, I quibble in detail.

1. Disney's Alice character shared a name but little else with 
Dodgson's. Disney's device was integrating live action with animation in 
those cartoons.

2. The government frequently makes information available only to subsets 
of the population such as physicians, corporations with whom/which it 
partners, and those cleared for sensitive data. It could do so with 
regard to "scholars" if it chose to define the class and impose the 
restriction.

3. Not all cylinders and acoustic recordings are "historic". I know of 
at least two made in the past fifty years which have been published in 
one sense or another.

Again, despite the above imperfections, the points are relevant and well 
made.

Mike
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