[Free-sklyarov-uk] concrete examples

[Martin Keegan]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Edward Welbourne wrote:

> > The question I always like to ask is: "do authors have a moral right
> > to the increased profits from restricted playability of recorded
> > media?"
> 
> and where, I might ask, did you get the naive idea that the *author*
> sees any of those profits ?  Copyright servers publishers.

It's the publishers, not me, who say this (justifying their
alleged excesses by appeals to the "moral rights"[*] of authors). I 
am voicing a question I'd love to see put to them in rebuttal, if we ever
get another Newsnight-style debate on the topic.

Mk

[*] I use this term in the legal sense