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  Anonymous Coward, 22 Dec 2004 @ 12:29pm

  
  

  What?!

  No off-topic Dorpus troll?

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  jayrtfm, 22 Dec 2004 @ 3:43pm

  
  

  Godwin's law

  The Nazi's with the help of Sonny Bono are now preventing WWII footage from being shown. After WWII the Nazi produced footage of the war and the deathcamps were put in the public doman for a period of 50 years. Now that the rights have reverted back to the German companies, no documentary maker can afford the liscencing fees.

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  Anonymous Coward, 22 Dec 2004 @ 3:50pm

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Ideas are thingh in your head. They are intangible and noncorporeal. They cannot be copied or manipulated.
  
  Archival imagery is both tangible and corporeal. It exists as film, tape, or digital files. It can be copied and manipulated.
  
  The usual rant that copyright enforcement stifles the free exchange of ideas is either just wrong or deliberate sophistry, depending on the cleverness of the ranter.
  
  People who make something own it and all rights associated with it. They can sell or rent those rights as they choose. Copyright law recognizes and enforces those rights, but it certainly does not create them. If copyright law vanished, I'd still have the right to decide who gets to copy my manuscript.
  

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