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Copyright law: Tolerate at your own peril
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Stephen Manes, a board member of the Authors Guild, has just written a PC World column titled Copyright Law: Ignore at Your Own Peril. I’d prefer another subtitle, “Tolerate at Your Own Peril.” The gist of the Manes argument is that cyber thieves are undermining “the foundations” of the commercial culture that allows professional creators to survive. The gist of my argument is different. Record and movie studios, along with the trogs among book publishers, are in certain ways the biggest threat to creators and consumers of culture. It is our duty as citizens not to tolerate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and other goodies that Hollywood-bought politicians have given us.