Re: Old-Fashioned Definition of "Wrong" (was Mr. Smiley's lawyer)

[Edward Levin <edwardlevin@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Jack

You'll get no argument from me on the subject of copyright; the most recent 
US copyright extension was a Mickey Mouse piece of legislation in more ways 
than one. I also have no complaints with digital publishing, as long as we 
don't conflate the disembodied text with its physical object.

Edward Levin

BTW, although forms do affect meanings, what Mackenzie wrote is "forms 
effect meanings," which is, to my mind, a stronger assertion.


> Jack Kessler wrote:
> What remains to be seen is how much real access mere students and
> the general public will be accorded, though, to the rare and
> ancient works. Hopefully one will not have to be a "scholar"
> already, to handle the books and thus truly appreciate that
> "forms affect meanings", or we will run out of scholars.

> ps. Copyright as-currently-constituted, I hope you'll agree, is a
> roadblock to this process: if Stephen Joyce, to use the example
> cited originally in the thread, restricts digital publication of
> the works he controls, he curbs not only their digital
> publication but the preservation of their printed versions as
> well. We need both: both better preservation, and better access.