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+<title>计算机网络时代的版权和社区 - GNU 工程 - 
自由软件基金会</title>
+
+<!--#include 
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+<h2>计算机网络时代的版权和社区(2000)</h2>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+这是一份录音的转写,由 Douglas Carnall 提供,2000 年 7 月
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p><em>Stallman 先生比预定的时间晚到了几
分钟,他以问候安静和可敬的观众开始演讲。他讲得非常清
楚,几乎毫无迟疑,操着浓重的波士顿口音。</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:这个东西是给戴绞索的人做的。</p>
+
+<p><em>[他指的是一个带固定夹子的麦å…
‹é£Žï¼Œè®²è¯¾ç”¨çš„放大器系统的一部分]</em></p>
+
+<p>我没戴绞索,所以没法固定这个东西。</p>
+
+<p><em>[他把麦克风固定在 T-恤上]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>我</strong>:您接受录音吗?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:是的。<em>[有点不耐烦]</em>有多少人要向我提问?</p>
+
+<p>好的,今天我要演讲。</p>
+
+<p><em>[长时间的停顿]</em></p>
+
+<p>内容是关于版权和社区。这个声音太高。</p>
+
+<p><em>[他指了指夹式麦克风]</em></p>
+
+<p>我能做什么?</p>
+
+<p>我们看看&hellip;&hellip;没有音量控制开关&hellip;&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><em>[在扬声器上找到了音量控制开关]</em></p>
+
+<p>现在好些</p>
+
+<p>好的。计算机网络时代的版权和社区。道德的原则不会改变。它们在任何æƒ
…况下都一样,但是如果要把它们应用到具体问题,那么你
就需要审查具体问题的实情并考虑其他变通的方法,你
要看看它们的后果;技术的改变永远不会改变道德的原则,但是技术的改变会改变相同选择下的后果,å›
 
此它会使问题的结果有所不同,这正是版权法领域发生的事æƒ
…。我们面临的情形就是技术的改变影响了道德因素
,而这些道德因素影响版权法的决定并改变社会政策。</p>
+<p>过去曾是好法律,现在变坏了,因
为环境变了。但是为了能够解释清楚这一切,请å…
è®¸æˆ‘回到手写书本的远古时代。手写书只是一个方式,任何读书识字的人都可以手抄一个副本。请注意,整天手抄书的奴隶可能比一般人抄的快一点,但是分别并不大。基本来看,任何读书人都可以抄书,而且可以以任何方式抄书。</p>
+<p>在古代,著书和抄书并没有和今天这么大的分别。</p>
+
+<p>写书有许多种。一方面有人在写剧本。然后在另一端,有人只进行复制。在中间,也有人复制一部分,但也自己写一部分,或è€
…写一些评论,这些都很常见,而且毫无
疑问也是受人尊敬的工作。另外有人在这本书里复制一点,在另一本书里再复制一点,再写一点自己的东西,然后再复制另外一本书的东西,从各种不同的作品里进行各种引用,然后再写相å
…³çš„评论或å…
¶ä»–。有很多古代的作品&mdash;&mdash;已经流失&mdash;&mdash;å…
¶ä¸­æœ‰äº›éƒ¨åˆ†é€šè¿‡å…
¶ä»–书的引用而变得比<em>[原来]</em>的书还流行。</p>
+
+<p>在原创和复制之间有一个分布。有许多书是部分复制,但是夹杂着原创。我不认为古代有版权的概念,而且即使有也极难实行,å›
 ä¸ºä»»ä½•è¯»ä¹¦äººï¼Œåªè¦æ‰¾å¾—到书写工具,只要有一æ 
¹ç¾½æ¯›å°±å¯ä»¥å¤åˆ¶ä¹¦ã€‚因此,复制的条件清晰而简单。</p>
+
+<p>后来,有了印刷术,而它极大地改变了这个情
况。印刷术大大提高了复制书本的效率,前提是复制同一本书。印刷术需要特制的、相当昂贵的设备,普通读è€
…没有这些设备。因此实际
上,印刷术创建了一个新的环境,此时复制书本只能由特殊行业来进行,这个行业的从业è€
…
数目不会很大。一个国家可能有上百家印刷厂,而可能有上万、甚至上百万的读书人。å›
 æ­¤ï¼Œå¤åˆ¶ä¹¦çš„地方变得非常少了。</p>
+
+<p>此时,版权的概念随着印刷业发展起来。我认为也许&hellip;&hellip;我记得看到威尼斯,在
 16
+世纪初曾是主要的印刷中心,也曾有过类似版权的东西,但是我没找到:我没能找到参考书。不过,å›
 ä¸ºæ™®é€šè¯»è€…
很少复制书,所以版权系统和印刷术的结合很自然。读书人仍然可以复制书。非常穷的人或è€
…
非常富的人还会手抄书。富人以此来炫耀财富:他们有钱,可以买得起漂亮的手抄本。穷人å›
 
为买不起印刷本,所以用手抄书。就像歌谣里唱的&ldquo;穷得只有时间时,时间就不是金钱了。&rdquo;
 
+因
此有些穷人用笔复制书。但是大多数的书还是出版商在印刷厂印制的,而版权系统与这æ
 ·çš„技术系统非常匹配。一方面读者毫无痛苦,因
为他们反正也不会复制书,除了很富有的人想炫富或者
很贫穷的人抄来看,而且没有人会因
此而诉诸法律。该系统的执法也相当容易,因
为只有少数地方需要执法:就是印刷厂,因此执法也无
需干涉和骚扰公众。你看不到人们都在复印书而同时担
心被抓捕的情形。</p>
+
+<p>事实上,除了没有直接限制读者之外,版权也没给读者造
成麻烦,因为它虽然可能提高了一点书的价æ 
¼ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯å´æ²¡æœ‰é€ æˆä»·æ ¼ç¿»å€ï¼Œå› æ­¤é¢å¤–的书价增加对读者
来说不构成负担。版权限制的活动是读者
不能实施的活动——作为普通读者不能实施——因
此,它没造成麻烦。这样,也没有必
要使用严厉的惩罚来说服读者要遵守版权。</p>
+
+<p>因此,版权实际上是一个行业规范。它限制出版商和作者
,但是不限制公众。它有点象乘船横渡大西洋要收船票一æ 
·ã€‚你看,当人们要在船上待好几星期或几
个月时,收票是容易的。</p>
+
+<p>时过境迁,印刷越来越高效。最后穷人也不再手抄书了,而抄书这件事大家也就淡忘了。我认为是在
 19
+世纪初印书最后变得很便宜,每个人都买得起书,而人们开始忘记穷人手抄书的往事。我是在十年前开始和人们讨论这个话题时听说这个事的。</p>
+
+<p>最初,英国版权的一部分作用是作为审查手段。想要出书的人需要请求政府批准,但是这个理念后来变了,在美国宪法中,版权明确表述为不同的理念。当人们撰写美国宪法时,有人提议作è€
…应该拥有å…
¶ä¹¦ç±çš„垄断版权。这个提议被否决。作为替代,另一种不同的哲学理念被写进了宪法。版权的理念应该是&hellip;&hellip;复制东西是人们与生俱来的自然权利,但是版权是对复制的人为限制,它应该促进发展。</p>
+
+<p>因
此,版权系统也许大同小异,但是对版权目的的表述评判了版权的意义。版权的目的被明确地表述为促进发展的手段,
+而不是版权拥有者的私产。因
此版权系统应该规范版权拥有者
的行为使之为大众谋福利。这æ 
·çš„福利由多写书、多印书组成,这就是在为促进文明、传
播思想做贡献,版权应该是这样的工å…
·&hellip;&hellip;换句话说,版权为此目的而存在。因
此,版权也被看成是公众和作者的讨价还价;å…
¬ä¼—放弃一些复制东西的自然权利,换取的是通过鼓励更多人写作的间接进步。</p>
+
+<p>现在我们来看一个似乎不太明确的问题&ldquo;版权的目的是什么?&rdquo;但是任何活动的目的都是决定活动是否改变和如何改变的最重要问题。如果ä½
 å¿˜äº†ç›®çš„,那么肯定会办错事,因
此从做出那个决定的那天起,作者、尤å…
¶æ˜¯å‡ºç‰ˆå•†åˆ°ä»Šå¤©éƒ½åœ¨ä¼å›¾æ­ªæ›²é‚£ä¸ªå†³å®šå¹¶åƒæ–¹ç™¾è®¡åœ°éšçž’它。å‡
 
十年来一直有人在散布谣言说那个理念是被美国宪法否决的,而版权是作为版权所有è€
…的私产而存在的。你可以从他们把什么事情都用
+&ldquo;海盗&rdquo; 
一词来表达就可以看出,这个词给人的印象是非授权复制在道德上等同于攻击船舰并绑架或残害船上的人。</p>
+
+<p>因此,如果你细看出版商的言论,你
就会发现大量诸如此类的假设,你必
须把它们提取出来并逐一质问。</p>
+
+<h3>最近的事件和问题</h3>
+<p><em>[灯亮了]</em></p>
+
+<p>无
论如何,在印刷持续的时代,版权没什么痛苦,它容易执行,可能是个好主意。但是印刷时代在å‡
 
十年前发生了变化,就是当施乐复印机和磁带录制开始出现的时候,到现在计算机网络开始实用,环境发生了巨大的变化。现在的æƒ
…
况更像是古代的时候,每个人都可以读书也可以复制,而且每个人复制的东西都å‡
 ä¹Žä¸€æ ·å®Œç¾Žã€‚</p>
+
+<p><em>[有听众交谈]</em></p>
+
+<p>普通读者可以自己复制书,这个情
况再次出现。复制不再需要象印刷厂那æ 
·çš„中心化规模生产。这个情
况改变了版权法工作的环境。版权的理念曾是å…
¬ä¼—交易掉一些自然复制权利,换来一些利益。是的,交易有好有坏。这依赖于ä½
 ç”¨äºŽäº¤æ¢çš„价值,和你换来的价值。在印刷时代,å…
¬ä¼—交易掉的是一个无法使用的自由。</p>
+
+<p>那个交易就像是卖掉无用的东西:你
能有什么损失?这些东西本来就没什么用,如果能换些有用的东西,那么不算是坏交易。</p>
+
+<p><em>[笑声]</em></p>
+
+<p>那个交易就像你保证不去星际旅行就可以收到钱一æ 
·ã€‚反正我们也不去星际旅行。</p>
+
+<p><em>[大笑]</em></p>
+
+<p>至少在有生之年你不会去,如果有人愿意为你
保证不去星际旅行付钱,你
可能就愿意把钱收了。但是如果我给你看了一艘星际
飞船,那么你可能就不再认为收钱是个好交易了。当你
卖的东西过去无用,现在你发现它有用了,那么你
就要考虑过去做的交易是否有利。一般来说,此时你
会决定&ldquo;我不会都卖了;我会留一些自用。&rdquo; 
+因此,如果你过去放弃了一些无法实践的自由,而现在你
可以实践了,那么你
可能就会至少保留一部分自由来实践。你
可能还会交易掉一部分自由:可以有很多交易方式来保留一部分交易一部分。所以,å
…·ä½“怎么做需要思考,但是无论怎么做你
都要重新考虑原来的交易,你可能不会象原来那æ 
·å‡ºå–那么多。</p>
+
+<p>但是出版商的想法正相反。在å…
¬ä¼—的利益是保留一部分自由的同时,出版商正在通过法律让我们放弃更多的自由。ä½
 
知道版权从来也不是要绝对垄断版权作品的使用。它管理一部分用途,而不管å
…
¶ä»–的用途,但是近来出版商一直在扩展版权的覆盖范围。最近的事æƒ
…
就是在美国通过数字千禧版权法案,他们还企图通过世界知识产权组织把该法案变成一个条约。而该组织是代表版权和专利拥有è€
…的一个组织,它正在假借为人权服务而非为个别å…
¬å¸æœåŠ¡çš„名义扩大其权力。</p>
+
+<p>现在,当版权开始限制普通读者
正当的活动时,会有什么后果?一方面版权就不再是一个行业规范。它变成一个对å
…¬ä¼—的压制。另一方面,正因如此,你会看到å…
¬ä¼—开始反对版权;当版权不让人们做他们认为是生活中自然的事æƒ
…
,人们就不再遵守版权。这就意味着版权不再容易执行,这就是ä½
 çœ‹åˆ°æ”¿åºœçš„处罚越来越严苛的原因
,此政府为出版商服务而为非公众服务。</p>
+
+<p>而且,你
要质疑版权系统是否还有益。简单来说,我们花出去的东西现在变得对我们有价值了。也许那个交易不是好交易。å›
 æ­¤ï¼Œå’Œå°åˆ·ä¸šé…
åˆè‰¯å¥½çš„系统在数字信息技术时代变得一塌糊涂。所以,不再象坐船渡过大西洋要收钱,现在象是过马路也要收钱。这个区别很大,å›
 ä¸ºäººä»¬æ€»åœ¨è¿‡é©¬è·¯ï¼Œè®©ä»–们因此付钱是欺人太甚。</p>
+
+<h3>新型版权</h3>
+
+<p>现在,我们应该对版权做出哪些改变来适应公众面对的情
况?最激进的改变也许是废弃版权,但是那并不是唯一的选择。还有很多不å¿
…完全废弃版权就可以降低其权力的情况,因
为还有对版权的多种不同处理方法,还有在不同情
况下对版权的处理方法,每个方法都涉及单独的问题。版权应该覆盖这些吗?此外,还有一个问题&ldquo;多长时间?&rdquo;。
  
+版权期限过去比现在短得多,但是在过去 50
+年间它被一再延长,实际上版权所有者
正计划再延长版权以致其永不过期。美国宪法说&ldquo;版权必
须有个期限&rdquo;,但是出版商找到了绕过去的方法:每过
+20 年他们就把版权延长 20 年,这æ 
·ç‰ˆæƒå°±æ°¸è¿œä¸ä¼šè¿‡æœŸã€‚一千年之后,版权可能持续一千二百年,这æ
 ·ç±³è€é¼ å°±åˆšå¥½ä¸ä¼šè¿‡æœŸã€‚</p>
+
+<p>人们相信这就是为什么美国国会要通过把版权延长 20
+年的法案。迪士尼付钱给他们,也付钱给总统,通过竞选经费合法付钱。ä½
 
看,如果直接付钱给他们是犯罪,但是通过竞选就合法,他们当然付钱给竞选:收买法律制定è€
…。因此他们通过了
+Sonny Bono 版权法案。有趣的是,Sonny Bono 是国会议员,也是 
Scientology
+教会会员,而它使用版权来压制知识。因
此,国会议员成了他们的宠
物,他们极力提高版权的权力。</p>
+
+<p>不管怎样,所幸 Sonny Bono 死了,米老鼠版权法案在 1998
+年以其名义通过。顺便提一句,它正在受到挑战,因
为人们希望把一个案子提到最高法院,以此来把延长版权的法律推翻。总之,有很多这æ
 ·çš„情形可能会减少版权的范围。</p>
+
+<p>有哪些呢?首先是各种不同的内
容复制。一端是要卖钱的商业复制,一端是大家时不时复制给朋友的个人复制,在这两端之间是å
…¶ä»–情况。比如,想象一下公司分发给员工的副本,学æ 
¡é‡Œçš„复印,或者是私人、非盈利组织的复制。不同的情
况,我们要区别对待。
+
+因
此,我们拿回权利的方法&hellip;&hellip;广义上说,最隐私的活动也是对我们的自由和生活最å
…³é”®çš„活动,与此一致,最公开和最商业的活动是为作者
提供收入的最有用的活动,因
此妥协的自然条件是将版权的界限划在它仍然为作者提供收å…
¥çš„活动和同时它又为人们的私人生活提供自由之间。这就是我为小说、ä¼
 è®°ã€å›žå¿†å½•å’Œæ•£æ–‡ä¹‹ç±»çš„作品建议的版权。  
+最低限度,人们应该有权和朋友分享一个复制品。政府禁止这类分享的时候就是政府开始å
…
¥ä¾µæ¯ä¸ªäººç”Ÿæ´»å¹¶ä½¿ç”¨ä¸¥åŽ‰æƒ©ç½šæ‰‹æ®µçš„时候。基本上,阻止人们在私人生活中分享的方法只有警局,而å
…¬å…±å•†ä¸šæ´»åŠ¨å¯ä»¥éžå¸¸å®¹æ˜“并且毫无痛点地管理。</p>
+
+<p>现在,如何划线依赖于,我觉得,作品的分类。不同类的作品服务于用户的不同目的。到目前为止,我们的版权系统对音乐之外的作品的处理å‡
 ä¹Žå®Œå…¨ä¸€æ ·ã€‚但是并没有理由把实际
效果不同的东西简单化。我们可以对不同的作品进行不同的操作。我建议宽泛地分为三类作品:功能性作品、表达个人立场地作品和基础美学作品。</p>
+
+<p>功能性作品包括:计算机软件;菜谱;教科书;字典和å…
¶ä»–参考书;你
用来完成工作的任何东西。我认为人们对这类作品应该有很广泛的自由,åŒ
…括有自由发布修改版。因此,我明天要说的计算机软件相å…
³çš„事情可以应用于å…
¶ä»–种类的功能性作品。这个水平的自由&hellip;&hellip;因为有必
要有自由发布修改版,所以这就意味着我们差不多要完å…
¨æ‘†è„±ç‰ˆæƒï¼Œè€Œè‡ªç”±è½¯ä»¶è¿åŠ¨æ­£åœ¨å±•ç¤ºç¤¾ä¼šè¿›æ­¥çš„要求——原来假设的社会对版权的需求可以按ç
…§å…¶ä»–的方式进行。  
+我们不必
放弃重要的自由来换取进步。出版商一直在让我们认定不放弃å
…³é”®çš„自由就无
法进步,我认为自由软件运动的最重要意义就在于告诉出版商他们的假定是不对的。</p>
+
+<p>我不能说我确信在所有的领域没有版权的限制就不能进步,但是我们已经展示了可能性:没有版权并不是离奇的想法。我们不能把它抛开。å
…¬ä¼—不能假定版权是取得进步的唯一方法,因
为即使对这许多类作品版权系统也可以做出妥协,让人们有发布修改版的自由。
  
+你们看,例如,GNU
+自由文档许可证,它用来让书籍自由。它å…
è®¸ä»»ä½•äººåˆ¶ä½œå’Œå‡ºå”®ä¿®æ”¹ç‰ˆï¼Œä½†æ˜¯å®ƒè¦æ±‚以某种方式给予原作è€
…荣誉,并给予出版商商业优势,这æ 
·æˆ‘相信我们就会有商业版的自由教科书,人们刚刚开始用它进行商业尝试。自由软件基金会
+15
+年以来已经销售了大量的各类自由书籍,对我们来说,它成功了。不过此时此刻,商业出版商才刚刚开始尝试这种方式,但我认为对功能性作品来说发布修改版非常重要,版权应该做出妥协,应该给予所有人发布修改版的自由。</p>
+
+<p>对其他类作品,道德问题的适用有所不同,因
为作品的用途也不同。第二类作品是展现人们立场、观点或经历的作品。比如,散文、商业合同、法律声明、备忘录,以及表达说法、想法和喜好的作品。书评和餐åŽ
…评价等也是此类:它们也是表达意见和立场。  
+对此类作品,修改版没有特别的意义。我不觉得人们需要有自由来修改此类作品。人们只需要有å
…¨æ–‡å¤åˆ¶çš„自由,因
此我们要考虑对此类作品的自由发布应当仅
限于某些场景,比如,我觉得非商业的发布是可以å…
è®¸çš„。普通å…
¬æ°‘的生活不再受到限制,而出版商对此类作品的使用还是受到版权的约束。</p>
+
+<p><em>[喝了口水]</em></p>
+
+<p>我过去常想å…
è®¸äººä»¬æ—¶ä¸æ—¶åœ°è¿›è¡Œç§äººå¤åˆ¶åˆ†å‘就很好了,而å…
¬å¼€çš„复制分发也许还应该由版权限制,但是 Napster
+事件告诉我不应该这样。原因
就是该事件说明了有大量的人需要公开发布&mdash;&mdash;å…
¬å¼€ä½†ä¸æ˜¯å•†ä¸šå‘布&mdash;&mdash;这很有用处。如果这事如此有用,那么不让人做就不对。但是我觉得限制此类作品的商业发布还是可接受的,å›
 
为这只是一个行业规范,它不会限制人们所作的有益的事。</p>
+
+<p>还有科学论文。学术论文一般来说也属于这一类作品,因
为发布对学术论文的修改版不是什么好事:它修改了记录,å›
 æ­¤åªåº”该允许全文复制分发。因
此任何人都可以自由地分发科学论文,我们应该鼓励这种分发,我希望ä½
 ä»¬æ°¸è¿œä¹Ÿä¸è¦åŒæ„é™åˆ¶ç§‘学论文的å…
¨æ–‡å¤åˆ¶åˆ†å‘。告诉杂志社你不会那么做。</p>
+
+<p>因为科学期刊已经成了传
播科学成果的障碍。他们过去曾是必
要的手段。现在它们成了障碍,我们必
须抛弃那些限制访问和限制分发 <em>[强调]</em>
+的期刊。它们是传
播知识的敌人;它们是科学的敌人。这种活动必须结束。</p>
+
+<p>还有第三类作品,艺术作品,它们主要是来欣赏的;小说、戏剧、诗歌、大多数绘画、大多数音乐。它们一般都是为欣赏而作。它们不是功能性的,人们没有å¿
…
要修改它们,对功能性作品人们才需要改进。所以这是个难题:人们有没有自由发布修改版的艺术作品很重要吗?一方面,带有自我色彩的作è€
…会说</p>
+
+<p><em>[英国腔,戏剧性姿势]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;奥,这是我的作品。&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p><em>[恢复到波士顿口音]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;竟敢有人擅
改一行?&rdquo;另一方面,民俗化过程让许多人不断修改作品,依次或并行,然后产生的版本会非常丰富多彩,不单是优美的歌曲和短诗如此,而且æ‚
 
长的史诗也是如此产生,在神秘艺术家创生之前,版人半神的形象非常强大,就连伟大的作家也在不断重写前人的æ•
…事。莎士比亚的一些作品就包含了几十年前他人的戏剧故
事。如果那时已有今天的版权,那么他们会把写下伟大作品的莎士比亚称为海盗,而å
…¶ä»–作者当然也会说</p>
+
+<p><em>[英国腔]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;他竟敢擅改我的作品?他无法让作品更好。&ldquo;</p>
+
+<p><em>[观众窃窃私语]</em></p>
+
+<p>你会看到人们就是这æ 
·å–笑这个想法。我并不确定我们应该如何处理对艺术作品的修改发布。一种可能性就是象对å¾
…音乐作品一æ 
·ï¼Œäººä»¬å¯ä»¥é‡ç¼–和玩音乐,但是也许他们要付费,但是他们æ—
 éœ€æŽˆæƒå°±å¯ä»¥æ¼”绎音乐。也许这些作品的商业发布,无
论是否修改,如果他们挣了钱,那么他们也许要付费,这是一种可能性。对艺术作品的修改发布改如何处理是一个难题,我并没有一个令我满意的答案。</p>
+
+<p><strong>观众甲 (AM1)</strong>,提问,听不到</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:让我重复一下他的问题,他说得很快,ä½
 ä»¬å¯èƒ½æ²¡å¬æ¸…。他说
+&ldquo;电脑游戏属于哪一类作品?&rdquo;我觉得游戏引擎是功能性的,而游戏场景是艺术性的。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM1</strong>:图形图像呢?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:
+这些可能也是场景的一部分。å…
·ä½“图片是场景的一部分;它们是美学,而显示软件是功能。å›
 æ­¤ï¼Œæˆ‘认为如果它们把美学和功能无
缝结合在一起,那么这个软件应该作为功能性的作品,但是如果它们愿意把引擎和场景分开,那么说引擎是功能、场景是美学应该没问题。</p>
+
+<h3>版权:可能的解决方案</h3>
+
+<p>版权持续多久?你
看,现在出本书的趋势是它们越来越快地退出版权市场。今天,美国的大部分书出版之后三年就不再重印了。还会有一些剩余,也基本用完。所以,版权明显没有持续
+95 年的必要:那太荒谬了。事实上,10
+年的版权明显已经足够支持出版活动。但是开始的日期应该是出版日期,而在出版之间增åŠ
 ä¸€ç‚¹å‡†å¤‡æ—¶é—´ä¹Ÿåˆç†ï¼Œè¿™å°±æ˜¯å¦‚你所见比 10
+年更长。只要书不再被出版,版权就不再限制å…
¬ä¼—。版权只是让作者
把书最终出版出来,但是一旦书出版了,我觉得版权应该持续
 10 年左右,然后就完事。</p>
+
+<p>有次我在一个论坛上讲解这个建议,下面都是作家。å…
¶ä¸­ä¸€ä¸ªè¯´ï¼š&ldquo;10 年版权?那太荒谬了!多过 5
+年都不可忍受。&rdquo;他是一个获过奖的科幻作家,他抱怨从出版商那里重获权利是如此之难,重获<sup><a
+href="#TransNote1">1</a></sup>这个有趣的法语词跑到英语里来了。出版商由于实é™
…原因
没有再重印他的书,但是仍然拖着后退不遵守合同——合同规定书卖完后版权回归作è€
…。</p>
+
+<p>你要知道,出版商对作者非常刻薄。他们总是以作者
的名义要求各种权力,他们会给少数非常有名的、有影响力的成功作家优厚的合同,对这些作家非常对å¾
…,并以此宣称这些权力都是为作家好。同时,大多数作者
并不出名,也没有钱,还没有什么影响力,这些作家就被出版界刻薄对å¾
…,甚至还不如音乐界。我推荐你们都读一下
+Courtney Love<sup><a href="#TransNote2">2</a></sup> 的文章
:它就在沙龙杂志<sup><a
+href="#TransNote3">3</a></sup>上,对吧?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM2</strong>(听众乙)是的</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:她一开始就叫录音公司“海盗”,因
为这就是他们对待音乐家的方式。无
论如何,我们可以缩短版权的期限。我们可以尝试各种期限,我们可以从实é™
…效果中看出哪个长度能够保持出版有生气。我觉得因
为大多数书籍
+10 年内就不再重印了,所有这清楚地表明 10
+年的期限应该够长了。但是期限对各种作品也可以不同。例如,也许有些电影场景相å
…
³çš„版权应该长些,就像出售带有电影画面和人物的商品的权利。ä½
 ä»¬äº†è§£ï¼Œè¿™æ˜¯ç–¯ç‹‚的商业,而且如果只是局限于个别å…
¬å¸ï¼Œè°ä¹Ÿä¸å¤ªåœ¨ä¹Žã€‚也许电影本身的版权持续
+20 年也说得过去。  
+对于软件,我怀疑 3 
年的版权就足够了。如果每版软件发布之后保持 3 
年版权,除非公司出了问题,否则他们在 3
+年版权到期之前就发布了新版本而且很多人想要更新的版本,所以即使老版本自动变成自由软件,å
…¬å¸è¿˜æ˜¯å¯ä»¥ç”¨æ–°ç‰ˆæœ¬åšç”Ÿæ„ã€‚我觉得这是一个妥协,因
为这是一个不是所有软件都自由的系统,但是这可能是一个可接受的妥协,不管怎æ
 ·ï¼Œç­‰
+3 年让软件变得自由&hellip;&hellip;也不是灾难。使用 3 
年的老软件也不是灾难。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM3</strong>:你不觉得这样的系统会造
成功能停滞吗?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:<em>[轻快地]</em>那没问题。和鼓励自由比起来,那只是次要问题,每个系统都会é€
 æˆæŸç§äººä¸ºçš„扭曲,而目前的系统由于版权的å…
³ç³»ä¼šé¼“励各种人为的扭曲,因
此改革后的系统也会鼓励一些次要的扭曲,那不是大问题。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM4</strong>:把版权改成 3 年也不能让软件提供源代ç 
å§ï¼Ÿ</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:对的。可能还要有一个条件,一个å…
³äºŽé”€å”®è½¯ä»¶å‰¯æœ¬ç»™å…¬ä¼—的法律:源代码必须保存到某处,3
+年之后必须发布。源代ç 
æ¯”如说可以保存到美国国会图书馆,其他国家想必
也有类似的公共图书机构,他们收存源代码,3
+年之后公开。当然,如果源代ç 
å’Œå¯æ‰§è¡Œç¨‹åºä¸ä¸€è‡´ï¼Œé‚£ä¹ˆå°±æ˜¯æ¬ºè¯ˆï¼Œè€Œäº‹å®žä¸Šè¿™ç§ä¸€è‡´æ€§æ£€æŸ¥åº”该相当容易,ä½
 ä¸€å‘布源代码,有人就会 &ldquo;dot
+slash configure dot slash make&rdquo;(GNU æ 
‡å‡†ç¨‹åºæž„建程序)并查看可执行文件是否一致。</p>
+
+<p>你是对的,只是取消版权并不能使软件自由(free)。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM5</strong>:自由(libre)</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:对。我只用(free)一词的这个(自由)意思。只取消版权不能使软件自由,å›
 ä¸ºæºä»£ç å¯èƒ½è¿˜æ˜¯æ²¡æœ‰æˆ–者用户受到合同限制无
法获得源代码。因
此让软件自由不是只结束版权那么简单:比那要复杂。事实上,如果只是对软件废除版权,那么我们就æ—
 æ³•ä½¿ç”¨
+copyleft
+来保护软件的自由,而同时软件私有者可以使用å…
¶ä»–方法&mdash;&mdash;合同或保留源代ç 
ã€‚这就意味着,如果我们发布一个自由软件,而某个贪心的恶人可以弄个修改版并只发布二进制,让人们和他签署保密协议。我们可能再也没有办法阻止他这么做了。å›
 
此,如果我们要修改法律让所有软件自由,那么我们要有很复杂的方法,而不是简单地去掉软件地版权。</p>
+
+<p>所以,整体上我建议大家考虑不同类型的作品和不同类型的用途,然后再考虑如何划线:让å
…¬ä¼—享有最重要的使用新作品的自由,同时保留一些对å…
¬ä¼—影响不大的版权让作者还能受益。这æ 
·ï¼Œæˆ‘们就能在新环境下适é…
ç‰ˆæƒç³»ç»Ÿï¼Œè¿™ä¸ªæ–°ç³»ç»Ÿä¸ä¼šå†è®©äººä»¬å› 
为和朋友分享信息而å…
¥ç‹±å¤šå¹´ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯å®ƒè¿˜èƒ½å¤Ÿæœ‰å¤šç§æ–¹æ³•é¼“励人们多写作。我觉得我们还可以再寻找å
…¶ä»–鼓励作者靠写作挣钱的方法。  
+例如,假设允许å…
¨æ–‡å¤åˆ¶åˆ†å‘作品,假设该作品带有某种功能,这æ 
·æˆ‘们在欣赏或阅读时,边上有个小窗写着 &ldquo;点此发送 1
+元钱给作者
或音乐家&rdquo;。我觉得在富裕地区许多人会发钱给作者
或音乐家,因
为人们对创作优质作品的作家和音乐家有真爱。有趣的是,他们现在获得的版税非常之少,如果ä½
 ä»˜äº†
+20 元,他们可能就已经收到比原来多的钱。</p>
+
+<p>所以这是一个非常有效的系统。更有趣的是当人们分发这些作品时,他们也是在帮作è€
…。主要是为他们打广告、把发送 1
+元钱的理由扩散出去。现在许多人不发送钱给作者
的最大原因
是有痛点。他们要怎么做呢?写支票?那么支票寄给谁?你
要搜索地址,可能不是那么容易。但是如果有便捷的网络支付系统,让人们发送
+1 元钱变得很简单,那么我们就可以分发这样的副本,这æ 
·æˆ‘们就找到了好的方法。  
+这个理念可能要花 5 到 10 年才能推广开,因
为这是文化,开始人们会觉得有些意外,不过一旦常规化人们就ä¹
 æƒ¯äº†ï¼Œæ¯•ç«Ÿå’Œå–书比起来,这样花费的钱并不多。</p>
+
+<p><em>[喝口水]</em></p>
+
+<p>因
此我认为,对于表达思想的作品,甚至美学作品,这个方法可能就是一个成功的方法。但是,它对功能性作品并不有效,原å›
 
是当人们一个接一个地发布修改版,人们该把钱发送给谁,又该发送多少呢?在作品只被一个作è€
…
发送一次时,对发送的小窗的处理就比较容易;如果没人发布修改版,那么小窗也没变化——带有同æ
 ·çš„发送链接指向同æ 
·çš„人,但是有不同人做了不同的修改版,那么就没有办法找到一个简单的方法自动分é
…è°åº”该获得多少份额的钱——无论是哪个版本。
+
+在理念上也很难确定哪个贡献更重要,所有显见的测量方法都
 <em>[emphasis]</em> 明显 <em>[/emphasis]</em>
+对某些情况不å…
¬ï¼Œä»–们明显对一些重要的事实视而不见,所以我认为这个方向的解决方案可能不存在。但是对那些人们不太需要自由来发布修改版的作品,一旦我们有方便的网络支付系统,这个方案就可以使用。</p>
+
+<p>对于美学作品,如果对商业分发或修改版分发系统也许需要和原创è€
…商谈收益分成,那么这种策略可以扩展到å…
è®¸ä¿®æ”¹ç‰ˆçš„美学作品,也许是一个标准的分成公式,某些情
况也是可以商谈修改,甚至该系统也可以å…
è®¸å¯¹ä¿®æ”¹ç‰ˆç¾Žå­¦ä½œå“çš„志愿付费。</p>
+
+<p>我相信有人已经在设法构建这种志愿付费的系统。我听说过一种叫街头表演è€
…的协议。我不了解细节。我确信有一个叫 GreenWitch.com 的网站
+<em>[记录着注:URL
+不确定]</em>。人们正在构建类似的东西。我认为他们希望能够收集到ä½
 ç»™ä¸åŒäººçš„支付。最后他们一次性地从你
的信用卡里划走,这样比较有效率。  
+这种系统是否在实际使用中够顺畅还不太清
楚,它们是否会被广泛接受而成为一种常态也不太清
楚。也许要让这种志愿系统能够真正实施,我们需要某种&hellip;&hellip;大家到处都能看到这种想法&hellip;&hellip;
+&ldquo;是的,我愿意付费&rdquo;。我们将拭目以待。</p>
+
+<p>有证据表明这个想法不无道理。如果你看一下美国的公å…
±ç”µå°ï¼Œå®ƒä»¬ä¸»è¦ç”±å¬ä¼—捐助支撑,我相信有上百万人赞助此事,为不æ¸
…楚具体数目,但是有许多公å…
±ç”µå°æ˜¯ç”±å¬ä¼—支持的,而且看起来随着时间推进找到赞助越来越容易。10
+年前,每年他们大约要花 6 个星期时间询问大家
+&ldquo;请捐助,你不觉得我们很重要吗&rdquo;,几
乎是每个整天,现在他们大多数通过发送邮件来向过去曾经捐助过的人募集资金,他们不再需要使用播音时间来募捐。</p>
+
+<p>最æ 
¹æœ¬åœ°ï¼Œç‰ˆæƒçš„目的:鼓励它作为有价值的权利而存在,但是我们还å¿
…
须看看达到目的的手段不要太严苛、不要太限制鼓励发展的使用,我认为数字技术正在为我们提供问题的解决方案,也正在创é€
 ä¸€ä¸ªæˆ‘们解决问题的场景。演讲到此结束,有没有问题?</p>
+
+<h3>提问和回答</h3>
+<p>首先,下次演讲的时间是什么?现在是什么时间?</p>
+
+<p><strong>记录者</strong>:现在是三点一刻。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:是吗?我已经迟了?我希望 Melanie 
还是让我回答几个问题。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>(听众 6):谁来决定作品该分到 3 
类中的哪一类?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:我不知道。肯定有很多方法。你
可能自己就能判断看的是小说。我觉得法官也能判断。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM7</strong>:你对加密有什么看法?加
密设备和版权资料之间交互关系呢?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:加密被用来作为控制å…
¬ä¼—的手段。出版商企图强加给公众各种加密系统,这æ 
·ä»–们就能阻止公众复制。他们称之为技术手段,但是实际
上他们依赖于无法通过的法律<sup><a
+href="#TransNote4">4</a></sup>,没有这些法律,这些手段都不能达到目的,å›
 
此他们都仰仗政府的直接干预来阻止人们复制,我强烈反对他们的行径,我不会接受这种媒体。如果从实用出发,没法拷贝某个东西,那么我不会买,我希望ä½
 ä»¬ä¹Ÿä¸è¦ä¹°ã€‚</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>:在法国,法律说即使媒体受保护,你
也有权为备份而复制。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:是的,两年前美国也是这样的。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>:在法国,你
常常签署了一个非法的协议&hellip;&hellip;你要用鼠æ 
‡ç­¾ç½²çš„合同&hellip;&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:也许不是那样。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>:他们会怎么对付我们呢?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:<em>[启发性地]</em>你
要挑战他们吗?需要资金,还会麻烦缠
身,而且不只这些,你怎么做呢?你
可以去法庭说,&ldquo;他们不能让人签署那样地合同,因
为合同无
效&rdquo;,但是如果分发商在美国,这会很难。法国法律å…
³äºŽæ— æ•ˆåˆåŒçš„条款在美国已经停止使用了。另一方面,你
还可以说&ldquo;我签了这个合同,但是它在法国是无
效的,所以我要å…
¬å¼€åå¯¹å®ƒï¼Œå¹¶è®©ä»–们来告我。&rdquo;这些就是你
可能要做的,如果你是对的,这些合同在法国无
效,那么这些案子会被退回。我不知道。也许那æ 
·åšæ˜¯ä¸ªå¥½æ³¨æ„ï¼Œä¸è¿‡æˆ‘不知道其政治影响是什么。  
+我知道几
年前欧洲通过了一个法律,它禁止私人复制音乐,录音å…
¬å¸æ‹‰ç€ä¸€äº›è‘—名流行音乐家推动此法律的通过,他们得逞了;很明显,他们有很大的影响力,而且影响力可能会越来越大,可能会如此再通过一个法律。我们应该思考防止这种变化的宪法修正案,我们将来的行动计划要考虑这个。我不是在欧洲实现这个的专家,但是人们应该这æ
 ·æ€è€ƒã€‚</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:如何保护私人通信?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:如果你不 <em>[emphasis]</em>å…
¬å¼€å‘表<em>[/emphasis]</em>
+它,那么这就是一个完全不同的问题。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:不,但是如果我发邮件给某人,邮件的版权也自动属于我。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:<em>[强有力地]</em>其实完全不相关。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:不,我不能接受。如果他们要把它发表在报纸上,那么我要索回我的版权。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:好吧,你不能强求对方对内
容保密,我不太确定。对我来说,这个有点不å…
¬æ­£ã€‚比如,你发信给某人威胁要告他,然后你
又告诉他不能告诉任何人因为你
的威胁是受版权保护的,这个很龌龊,我不知道它是否站得住脚。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:有些情
况我要和别人通信并保留我的(他们的)回复,完å…
¨ç§å¯†ã€‚</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:如果你们就此达成一致,那么事情就完å…
¨ä¸ä¸€æ ·äº†ã€‚抱歉,你
的两个问题不能混在一起,我今天也没有时间再考虑此问题。下一个演讲马上就要开始了。但是我认为把版权应用在这种æƒ
…况下是完全错误的。此情况的道德问题和发布作品完å…
¨ä¸åŒï¼Œå› æ­¤å¤„理它们的合理方式也完全不同。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:好极了,但是当前讨论的问题就是版权。&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:
+<em>[打断之]</em>不,你错了。如果人们同意保密,那么你
就又有其他的问题。在欧洲有隐私法,也有其他法,你无
权强制其他人为你保密。最多,你
可以强制他们换种说法,因为他有权告诉人们你做的事。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:是的,不过我假定双方都同意。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:那么,你就不能说版权是你
唯一的诉求。如果他同意了,那么他就不会把事情
透露给报纸,不是吗?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:不,你
把我的问题和监听搞在一起了。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:监听。那是另外一回事&hellip;
+<em>[激烈地]</em>不,你没有问过监听的事。这是你
第一次说到监听。&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>:不,是第二次。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM9</strong>:<em>[小声赞同 AM6]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:<em>[还很激动地]</em>我没有听到你
说&hellip;太荒谬了&hellip;就像&hellip;怎么说呢?&hellip;就像要用烤饼板杀大象,它们æ
 ¹æœ¬æ²¡å…³ç³»å˜›ã€‚</p>
+
+<p><em>[安静下来]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>AM10</strong>:你考虑过 <em>[听不到,交易秘密?]</em> 
的更改吗?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:是的。交易秘密正朝着非常险恶和不祥的方向发展。在过去,交易秘密意味着ä½
 å¯¹æŸäº›äº‹ä¿å®ˆç§˜å¯†è€Œä¸å‘Šè¯‰å…¶ä»–人;后来在商业上它变成你
只告诉少数人,而这些人答应保守秘密。但是现在,它变成了å
…
¬ä¼—普遍拉近来要求保守秘密,即使他们从未答应要保守秘密,这是个压迫。
  
+因此,那些装
作把交易秘密当成自然权力的人该醒醒了,不再是那æ 
·äº†ã€‚政府正在明确帮他们迫使人们帮他们保守秘密。我们也许要整体思考保密协议是否应该当成合法合同,å›
 ä¸ºäº¤æ˜“秘密的反社会属性,保密协议不应该自动合法——仅
仅因为有些人要保守秘密并不意味着有约束力。</p>
+
+<p>也许它有时合法,有时不合法。如果了解秘密对å…
¬ä¼—有明确的益处,那么保密合同应该判为无效;或者
客户签署之后有效,或者商业机构之间签署有效,或者
商业机构及其供应商之间签署有效,但是对于顾客,签署无
效。</p>
+
+<p>人们可以想出许多可能性,但是从一开始就没有自愿同意保守秘密的人不应该收到商业秘密的约束。这就是不太ä¹
…之前的状态。也许欧洲还是这样,我不太确定。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>:那么公司对其&hellip;&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:雇员?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>:不,不是雇员。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:供应商?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>:是的,供应商。客户是另一个供应商怎么办?</p>
+
+<p><em>[由于换碟片导致缺失]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:让我们从不鼓励这件事开始吧。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM12</strong>:我对你关于期刊和教科书中的科ç 
”作品有个问题。在我的工作中,至少有一个正规的期刊和教科书可以在线获取,但是它们也保有版权,不过如果可以上网这些资源就å
…è´¹å¯å¾—。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:这很好。但是还有许多期刊并不是这æ 
·çš„。比如,除非订阅,你无法访问 ACM
+期刊:你被挡在外面。因
此,我觉得期刊应该都在网上开放。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM12</strong>:那么,如果期刊都提供å…
è´¹ç½‘络访问,这对版权有什么明显的影响?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:首先,我不同意。镜像网站很重要,因
此期刊不只需要提供å…
¬å¼€è®¿é—®æƒé™ï¼Œä»–们还应当给每个人搭建å…
¨æ–‡å¤åˆ¶é•œåƒç½‘站的自由。如果不能,那么论文就有丢失的风险。许多灾害会导致丢失,ä½
 
知道,有自然灾害、政治灾难、技术灾难、官僚灾难、财政灾难&hellip;&hellip;所有这些都会导致网站灭失。å›
 æ­¤ï¼Œå­¦æœ¯å±Šåˆä¹Žé€»è¾‘的做法就是认真é…
ç½®å¹¿æ³›çš„镜像网站,确保每篇文章
在每块大陆都可以访问,从海岸到内陆都一æ 
·ï¼Œè¿™æ­£æ˜¯å¤§å›¾ä¹¦é¦†æ„Ÿåˆ°è¿«åˆ‡è¦åšçš„事情
,希望没人阻止他们。</p>
+
+<p>该怎么做?这些期刊应该更进一步。除了呼吁每个人都应该可以访问之外,每个人都应该可以建立镜像网站。即使他们说了,ä½
 
要做整个期刊的发行、广告,现在还要做冗余访问构建降低风险,å
…
¶ä»–机构会搭建镜像网站,我预计这有十年的路好走,一个需要良好组织的非官方镜像协作系统,它保证文献不会丢失。
  
+这里,构建多年期刊的镜像网站的花费并不大,也无
需特殊资金;人们也不必
费心,让各个图书馆去做就好了。不管怎æ 
·ï¼Œå·²ç»æœ‰ä¸€äº›è¿›å±•ï¼Œä¸è¿‡æˆ‘不太记得了。我可能得走了。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM13</strong>:关于艺术作品的财政问题&hellip;&hellip;你
觉得&hellip;&hellip;<em>[听不到]</em>会是推动力?虽然我理解这个问题&hellip;&hellip;但我指的是谁在做贡献呢?谁又在被奖励?自由软件的精神是否<em>[听不到]</em>?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:我不知道。自由软件的理念当然是在给人们建议。我们会看到的,我不知道答案。我不知道我们怎么达到目æ
 ‡ï¼Œæˆ‘想的是我们应该走向何方。我不知道如何到达目æ 
‡ã€‚出版商力量很大,他们能够让政府都支持他们。我们怎么才能建立一个å
…
¬ä¼—拒绝忍受这一切的世界,我不知道。我认为我要做的第一件事就是明确拒绝“盗版”一词及å
…
¶è°¬è®ºã€‚每次我们听到这个词,我们就大声反对,人们互相分享已经出版的作品并没有错,这是朋友间的分享,是一件好事。而且和朋友分享比出版商该挣多少钱重要多了。社会不应该为了这些å
…¬å¸çš„利益而扭曲。
+
+我们必须坚持&hellip;&hellip;因为你看到我们传
播的理念&mdash;&mdash;任何减少这些公司收å…
¥çš„东西都是不道德的,因而必须不遗余力地限制å…
¬ä¼—,要确保公司获得全部收å…
¥&hellip;&hellip;这就是我们要直接反对的æ 
¹æœ¬ã€‚人们大多数时间在努力针对次要的问题,正如你
所知,当出版商要求提高权力时,通常人们会说这样有害,å…
¶å®žæ˜¯æ¬¡è¦çš„伤害,并以此为基础争论,但是你
很少看到有人(除了我)指出整个改变都是错的,限制的方式就错了,人们改变副本是合法的,应该å
…è®¸ä»–们修改作品。这样的例子很多。我们必须要把他们连æ 
¹æ–©æ–­ï¼Œè€Œä¸æ˜¯åªå¼„掉几片叶子。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM14</strong>:<em>[听不到]</em>专注于音乐捐助系统很重要。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:是的。不幸的是有些很有希望的技术被专利束缚了。</p>
+
+<p><em>[观众笑着、叫着&ldquo;不&rdquo;]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:因此用上这些技术可能要等 10 年。</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM15</strong>:我们只执行法国的法律。</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>:我不知道。我想我最好把舞台交给 
Melanie,演讲原定 3 点开始。抱歉</p>
+
+<p>RMS 站着不再说话。掌声爆发之前有一段宁静。RMS 
对着他一开始就放在投影仪上的 gnu 玩偶鼓掌。</p>
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+<h2>Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks (2000)</h2>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+This is a transcription from an audio recording, prepared by Douglas
+Carnall, July 2000.
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p><em> Mr Stallman arrives a few minutes after the appointed hour of
+commencement of his talk to address a hushed and respectful audience.
+He speaks with great precision and almost no hesitation in a
+pronounced Boston accent.</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: This is made for someone who wears a
+strangler.</p>
+
+<p><em>[indicates clip-on microphone for lecture theatre amplification
+system]</em></p>
+
+<p>I don't wear stranglers, so there is no place for it to go.</p>
+
+<p><em>[clips it to his T-shirt]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>Me</strong>: Are you OK with the recording?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Yes!  <em>[testy]</em> How many people have
+to ask me?</p>
+
+<p>Well, I'm supposed to speak today</p>
+
+<p><em>[long pause]</em></p>
+
+<p>about copyright versus community.  This is too loud.</p>
+
+<p><em>[indicates clip-on microphone]</em></p>
+
+<p>What can I do?</p>
+
+<p>Let's see&hellip; there's no volume control&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><em>[finds volume control on radio microphone box]</em></p>
+
+<p>this seems better</p>
+
+<p>OK.  Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks.
+The principles of ethics can't change.  They are the same for all
+situations, but to apply them to any question or situation you have to
+look at the facts of the situation to compare alternatives, you have
+to see what their consequences are, a change in technology never
+changes the principles of ethics, but a change in technology can alter
+the consequences of the same choices, so it can make a difference for
+the outcome of the question, and that has happened in the area of
+copyright law.  We have a situation where changes in technology have
+affected the ethical factors that weigh on decisions about copyright
+law and change the right policy for society.</p>
+<p>Laws that in the past may have been a good idea, now are harmful
+because they are in a different context.  But to explain this, I
+should go back to the beginning to the ancient world where books were
+made by writing them out by hand.  That was the only way to do it, and
+anybody who could read could also write a copy of a book.  To be sure
+a slave who spent all day writing copies could probably do it somewhat
+better than someone who didn't ordinarily do that but it didn't make a
+tremendous difference.  Essentially, anyone who could read, could copy
+books, about as well as they could be copied in any fashion.</p>
+<p>In the ancient world, there wasn't the sharp distinction between
+authorship and copying that there tends to be today.</p>
+
+<p>There was a continuum.  On the one hand you might have somebody,
+say, writing a play.  Then you might have, on the other extreme, just
+somebody making copies of books, but in between you might have say,
+somebody, who say, copies part of a book, but writes some words of his
+own, or writing a commentary, and this was very common, and definitely
+respected.  Other people would copy some bits from one book, and then
+some bits from another book, and write something of their own words,
+and then copy from another book, quoting passages of various lengths
+from many different works, and then writing some other works to talk
+about them more, or relate them.  And there are many ancient
+works&mdash;now lost&mdash;in which part of them survived in these
+quotations in other books that became more popular than the book that
+the original quote <em>[came from]</em>.</p>
+
+<p>There was a spectrum between writing an original work, and copying.
+There were many books that were partly copied, but mixed with original
+writing.  I don't believe there was any idea of copyright in the
+ancient world and it would have been rather difficult to enforce one,
+because books could be copied by anyone who could read anywhere,
+anyone who could get some writing materials, and a feather to write
+with.  So, that was a rather clear simple situation.</p>
+
+<p>Later on, printing was developed and printing changed the situation
+greatly.  It provided a much more efficient way to make copies of
+books, provided that they were all identical.  And it required
+specialised, fairly expensive equipment that an ordinary reader would
+not have.  So in effect it created a situation in which copies could
+only feasibly be made by specialised businesses, of which the number
+was not that large.  There might have been hundreds of printing
+presses in a country and hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions
+of actually people who could read.  So the decrease in the number of
+places in which copies could be made was tremendous.</p>
+
+<p>Now the idea of copyright developed along with the printing press.
+I think that there may be&hellip; I think I remember reading that
+Venice, which was a major centre of printing in the 1500s also had a
+kind of copyright but I can't find that: I couldn't find that
+reference again.  But the system of copyright fitted in naturally with
+the printing press because it became rare for ordinary readers to make
+copies.  It still happen.  People who were very poor or very rich had
+handmade copies of books.  The very rich people did this to show off
+their wealth: they had beautiful illuminated wealth to show that they
+could afford this.  And poor people still sometimes copied books by
+hand because they couldn't afford printed copies.  As the song goes
+&ldquo;Time ain't money when all you got is time.&rdquo; 
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>So some poor
+people copied books with a pen.  But for the most part the books were
+all made on printing presses by publishers and copyright as a system
+fitted in very well with the technical system.  For one thing it was
+painless for readers, because the readers weren't going to make copies
+anyway, except for the very rich ones who could presumably legitimise
+it, or the very poor ones who were making just individual copies and
+no one was going to go after them with lawyers.  And the system was
+fairly easy to enforce again because there were only a small number of
+places where it had to be enforced: only the printing presses, and
+because of this it didn't require, it didn't involve, a struggle
+against the public.  You didn't find just about everybody trying to
+copy books and being threatened with arrest for doing it.</p>
+
+<p>And in fact, in addition to not restricting the reader's directly,
+it didn't cause much of a problem for readers, because it might have
+added a small fraction to the price of books but it didn't double the
+price, so that small extra addition to the price was a very small
+burden for the readers.  The actions restricted by copyright were
+actions that you couldn't do, as an ordinary reader, and therefore, it
+didn't cause a problem.  And because of this there was no need for
+harsh punishments to convince readers to tolerate it and to obey.</p>
+
+<p>So copyright effectively was an industrial regulation.  It
+restricted publishers and writers but it didn't restrict the general
+public.  It was somewhat like charging a fee for going on a boat ride
+across the Atlantic.  You know, it's easy to collect the fee when
+people are getting on a boat for weeks or months.</p>
+
+<p>Well, as time went on, printing got more efficient.  Eventually
+even poor people didn't have to bother copying books by hand and the
+idea sort of got forgotten.  I think it's in the 1800s that
+essentially printing got cheap enough so that essentially everyone
+could afford printed books, so to some extent the idea of poor people
+copying books by hand was lost from memory.  I heard about this about
+ten years ago when I started talking about the subject to people.</p>
+
+<p>So originally in England copyright was partly intended as a measure
+of censorship.  People who wanted to publish books were required to
+get approval from the government but the idea began to change and it a
+different idea was expressed explicitly in the US constitution.  When
+the US constitution was written there was a proposal that authors
+should be entitled to a monopoly on copying their books.  This idea
+was rejected.  Instead, a different idea of the philosophy of
+copyright was put into the constitution.  The idea that a copyright
+system could be&hellip; well, the idea is that people have the natural
+right to copy things but copyright as an artificial restriction on
+copying can be authorised for the sake of promoting progress.</p>
+
+<p>So the system of copyright would have been the same more or less
+either way, but this was a statement about the purpose which is said
+to justify copyright.  It is explicitly justified as a means to
+promote progress, not as an entitlement for copyright owners.  So the
+system is meant to modify the behaviour of copyright owners so as to
+benefit the public.  The benefit consists of more books being written
+and published and this is intended to contribute to the progress of
+civilisation, to spreading ideas, and as a means to this end&hellip;
+in other words as a means to this end copyright exists.  So this also
+thought of as a bargain between the public and authors; that the
+public gives up its natural right to make copies of anything in
+exchange for the progress that is brought about indirectly, by
+encouraging more people to write.</p>
+
+<p>Now it may seem like an obscure question to ask &ldquo;What's the
+purpose of copyright?&rdquo; But the purpose of any activity is the
+most important thing for deciding when an activity needs to be changed
+and how.  If you forget about the purpose you are sure to get things
+wrong, so ever since that decision was made, the authors and
+especially the publishers most recently have been trying to
+misrepresent it and sweep it under the rug.  There has been a campaign
+for decades to try to spread the idea that was rejected in the US
+constitution.  The idea that copyright exists as an entitlement for
+copyright owners.  And you can that expressed in almost everything
+they say about it starting and ending with the word
+&ldquo;pirate&rdquo; which is used to give the impression that making
+an unauthorised copy is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship and
+kidnapping or killing the people on board.</p>
+
+<p>So if you look at the statements being made by publishers you find
+lots of implicit assumptions of this sort which you have to drag into
+the open and then start questioning.</p>
+
+<h3>Recent events and problems</h3>
+<p><em>[brightens]</em></p>
+
+<p>Anyway, as long as the age of the printing press continued,
+copyright was painless, easy to enforce, and probably a good idea.
+But the age of the printing press began changing a few decades ago
+when things like Xerox machines and tape recorders started to be
+available, and more recently as computer networks have come into use
+the situation has changed drastically.  We are now in a situation
+technologically more like the ancient world, where anybody who could
+read something could also make a copy of it that was essentially as
+good as the best copies anyone could make.</p>
+
+<p><em>[murmuring in the audience]</em></p>
+
+<p>A situation now where once again, ordinary readers can make copies
+themselves.  It doesn't have to be done through centralised mass
+production, as in the printing press.  Now this change in technology
+changes the situation in which copyright law operates.  The idea of
+the bargain was that the public trades away its natural right to make
+copies, and in exchange gets a benefit.  Well, a bargain could be a
+good one or a bad one.  It depends on the worth of what you are giving
+up.  And the worth of what you are getting.  In the age of the
+printing press the public traded away a freedom that it was unable to
+use.</p>
+
+<p>It's like finding a way of selling shit: what have you got to lose?
+You've got it on hand anyway, if you get something for it, it can
+hardly be a bad deal.</p>
+
+<p><em>[faint laughter]</em></p>
+
+<p>It's like accepting money for promising not to travel to another
+star.  You're not going to do it anyway</p>
+
+<p><em>[hearty laughter]</em></p>
+
+<p>at least not in our lifetime so you might as well, if someone's
+going to pay you to promise not to travel to another star, you might
+as well take the deal.  But if I presented you with a starship, then
+you might not think that deal was such a good deal any more.  When the
+thing you used to sell because it was useless, you discover a use for
+it, then you have to reconsider the desirability of those old deals
+that used to be advantageous.  Typically in a such a situation you
+decide that &ldquo;I'm not going to sell all of this any more; I'm
+going to keep some of it and use it.&rdquo; 
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>So if you were giving up a
+freedom that you couldn't exercise and now you can exercise it, you
+probably want to start retaining the right to exercise it at least
+partially.  You might still trade part of the freedom: and there are
+many alternatives of different bargains which trade parts of the
+freedom and keep other parts.  So, precisely what you want to do
+requires thought, but in any case you want to reconsider the old
+bargain, and you probably want to sell less of what you sold in the
+past.</p>
+
+<p>But the publishers are trying to do exactly the opposite.  At
+exactly the time when the public's interest is to keep part of the
+freedom to use it, the publishers are passing laws which make us give
+up more freedom.  You see copyright was never intended to be an
+absolute monopoly on all the uses of a copyright work.  It covered
+some uses and not others, but in recent times the publishers have been
+pushing to extend it further and further.  Ending up most recently
+with things like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the US which
+they are also trying to turn into a treaty through the World
+Intellectual Property Organisation which is essentially an
+organisation representing the owners of copyrights and patents and
+which works to try to increase their power, and pretends to be doing
+so in the name of humanity rather than in the name of these particular
+companies.</p>
+
+<p>Now, what are the consequences when copyright starts restricting
+activities that ordinary readers can do.  Well, for one thing it's no
+longer an industrial regulation.  It becomes an imposition on the
+public.  For another, because of this, you find the public's starting
+to object to it You know, when it is stopping ordinary people from
+doing things that are natural in their lives you find ordinary people
+refusing to obey.  Which means that copyright is no longer easy to
+enforce and that's why you see harsher and harsher punishments being
+adopted by governments that are basically serving the publishers
+rather than the public.</p>
+
+<p>Also, you have to question whether a copyright system is still
+beneficial.  Basically, the thing that we have been paying is now
+valuable for us.  Maybe the deal is a bad deal now.  So all the things
+that made technology fit in well with the technology of the printing
+press make it fit badly with digital information technology.  So,
+instead of like, charging the fee to cross the Atlantic in a boat,
+it's like charging a fee to cross a street.  It's a big nuisance,
+because people cross the street all along the street, and making them
+pay is a pain in the neck.</p>
+
+<h3>New kinds of copyright</h3>
+
+<p>Now what are some of the changes we might want to make in copyright
+law in order to adapt it to the situation that the public finds itself
+in?  Well the extreme change might be to abolish copyright law but
+that isn't the only possible choice.  There are various situations in
+which we could reduce the power of copyright without abolishing it
+entirely because there are various different actions that can be done
+with a copyright and there are various situations in which you might
+do them, and each of those is an independent question.  Should
+copyright cover this or not?  In addition, there is a question of
+&ldquo;How long?&rdquo;.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>Copyright used to be much shorter in its
+period or duration, and it's been extended over and over again in the
+past fifty years or so and in fact in now appears that the owners of
+copyrights are planning to keep on extending copyrights so that they
+will never expire again.  The US constitution says that
+&ldquo;copyright must exist for a limited time&rdquo; but the
+publishers have found a way around this: every twenty years they make
+copyright twenty years longer, and this way, no copyright will ever
+expire again.  Now a thousand years from now, copyright might last for
+1200 years, just basically enough so that copyright on Mickey Mouse
+can not expire.</p>
+
+<p>Because that's why, people believe that US Congress passed a law to
+extend copyright for twenty years.  Disney was paying them, and paying
+the President too, with campaign funds of course, to make it lawful.
+See, if they just gave them cash it would be a crime, but contributing
+indirectly to campaigns is legal and that's what they do: to buy the
+legislators.  So they passed the Sonny Bono copyright act.  Now this
+is interesting: Sonny Bono was a congressman and a member of the
+Church of Scientology, which uses copyrights to suppress knowledge of
+its activities.  So they have their pet congressman and they pushed
+very hard for increased copyright powers.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, we were fortunate that Sonny Bono died but in his name they
+passed the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act of 1998 I believe.  It's being
+challenged by the way, on the grounds that, there is a legal case that
+people hope to go to the Supreme Court and have the extension of old
+copyrights tossed out.  In any case, there are all these different
+situations and questions where we could reduce the scope of
+copyright.</p>
+
+<p>So what are some of them?  Well, first of all there are various
+different contexts for copying.  There is commercial sale of copies in
+the stores at one extreme and at the other there is privately making a
+copy for your friend once in a while, and in between there are other
+things, like, there's broadcasting on TV or the radio, there's posting
+it on the website, there's handing it out to all the people in an
+organisation, and some of these things could be done either
+commercially or non-commercially.  You know, you could imagine a
+company handing out copies to its staff or you could imagine a school
+doing it, or some private, non-profit organisation doing it.
+Different situations, and we don't have to treat them all the same.
+
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>So one way in we could reclaim the&hellip; in 
general though, the
+activities that are the most private are those that are most crucial
+to our freedom and our way of life, whereas the most public and
+commercial are those that are most useful for providing some sort of
+income for authors so it's a natural situation for a compromise in
+which the limits of copyright are put somewhere in the middle so that
+a substantial part of the activity still is covered and provides an
+income for authors, while the activities that are most directly
+relevant to peoples' private lives become free again.  And this is the
+sort of thing that I propose doing with copyright for things such as
+novels and biographies and memoires and essays and so on.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>That at the
+very minimum, people should always have a right to share a copy with a
+friend.  It's when governments have to prevent that kind of activity
+that they have to start intruding into everyone's lives and using
+harsh punishments.  The only way basically to stop people in their
+private lives from sharing is with a police state, but public
+commercial activities can be regulated much more easily and much more
+painlessly.</p>
+
+<p>Now, where we should draw these lines depends, I believe, on the
+kind of work.  Different works serve different purposes for their
+users.  Until today we've had a copyright system that treats almost
+everything exactly alike except for music: there are a lot of legal
+exceptions for music.  But there's no reason why we have to elevate
+simplicity above the practical consequences.  We can treat different
+kinds of works differently.  I propose a classification broadly into
+three kinds of works: functional works, works that express personal
+position, and works that are fundamentally aesthetic.</p>
+
+<p>Functional works include: computer software; recipes; textbooks;
+dictionaries and other reference works; anything that you use to get
+jobs done.  For functional works I believe that people need very broad
+freedom, including the freedom to publish modified versions.  So
+everything I am going to say tomorrow about computer software applies
+to other kinds of functional works in the same way.  So, this
+criterion of free&hellip; because it necessary to have the freedom to
+publish a modified version this means we have to almost completely get
+rid of copyright but the free software movement is showing that the
+progress that society wants that is supposedly the justification for
+society having copyright can happen in other ways.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>We don't have to
+give up these important freedoms to have progress.  Now the publishers
+are always asking us to presuppose that their there is no way to get
+progress without giving up our crucial freedoms and the most important
+thing I think about the free software movement is to show them that
+their pre-supposition is unjustified.</p>
+
+<p>I can't say I'm sure that in all of these areas we can't produce
+progress without copyright restrictions stopping people, but what
+we've shown is that we've got a chance: it's not a ridiculous idea.
+It shouldn't be dismissed.  The public should not suppose that the
+only way to get progress is to have copyright but even for these kinds
+of works there can be some kinds of compromise copyright systems that
+are consistent with giving people the freedom to publish modified
+versions.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>Look, for example, at the GNU free 
documentation license,
+which is used to make a book free.  It allows anyone to make and sell
+copies of a modified version, but it requires giving credit in certain
+ways to the original authors and publishers in a way that can give
+them a commercial advantage and thus I believe make it possible to
+have commercial publishing of free textbooks, and if this works people
+are just beginning to try it commercially.  The Free Software
+Foundation has been selling lots of copies of various free books for
+almost fifteen years now and it's been successful for us.  At this
+point though, commercial publishers are just beginning to try this
+particular approach, but I think that even for functional works where
+the freedom to publish modified works is essential, some kind of
+compromise copyright system can be worked out, which permits everyone
+that freedom.</p>
+
+<p>For other kinds of works, the ethical questions apply differently,
+because the works are used differently.  The second category of works
+is works that express someone's positions or views or experiences.
+For example, essays, offers to do business with people, statements of
+one's legal position, memoirs, anything that says, whose point is to
+say what you think or you want or what you like.  Book reviews and
+restaurant reviews are also in this category: it's expressing a
+personal opinion or position.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>Now for these kinds of works, making a
+modified version is not a useful thing to do.  So I see no reason why
+people should need to have the freedom to publish modified versions of
+these works.  Verbatim copying is the only thing that people need to
+have the freedom to do and because of this we can consider the idea
+that the freedom to distribute copies should only apply in some
+situations, for example if it were limited to non-commercial
+distribution that would be OK I think.  Ordinary citizen's lives would
+no longer be restricted but publishers would still be covered by
+copyright for these things.</p>
+
+<p><em>[drinks water]</em></p>
+
+<p>Now, I used to think that maybe it would be good enough to allow
+people to privately redistribute copies occasionally.  I used to think
+that maybe it would be OK if all public redistribution were still
+restricted by copyright for these works but the experience with
+Napster has convinced me that that's not so.  And the reason is that
+it shows that lots and lots of people both want to publicly
+redistribute&mdash;publicly but not commercially
+redistribute&mdash;and it's very useful.  And if it's so useful, then
+it's wrong to stop people from doing it.  But it would still be
+acceptable I think, to restrict commercial redistribution of this
+work, because that would just be an industrial regulation and it
+wouldn't block the useful activities that people should be doing with
+these works.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, also, scientific papers.  Or scholarly papers in general fall
+into this category because publishing modified versions of them is not
+a good thing to do: it's falsifying the record so they should only be
+distributed verbatim, so scientific papers should be freely
+redistributable by anyone because we should be encouraging their
+redistribution, and I hope you will never agree to publish a
+scientific paper in a way that restricts verbatim redistribution on
+the net.  Tell the journal that you won't do that.</p>
+
+<p>Because scientific journals have become an obstacle to the
+dissemination of scientific results.  They used to be a necessary
+mechanism.  Now they are nothing but an obstruction, and those
+journals that restrict access and restrict
+redistribution <em>[emphasis]</em> must be abolished.  They are the
+enemies of the dissemination of knowledge; they are the enemies of
+science, and this practice must come to an end.</p>
+
+<p>Now there is a third category of works, which is aesthetic works,
+whose main use is to be appreciated; novels, plays, poems, drawings in
+many cases, typically and most music.  Typically it's made to be
+appreciated.  Now, they're not functional people don't have the need
+to modify and improve them, the way people have the need to do that
+with functional works.  So it's a difficult question: is it vital for
+people to have the freedom to publish modified versions of an
+aesthetic work.  On the one hand you have authors with a lot of ego
+attachment saying</p>
+
+<p><em>[English accent, dramatic gesture]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Oh this is my creation.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p><em>[Back to Boston]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;How dare anyone change a line of this?&rdquo; On the other
+hand you have the folk process which shows that a series of people
+sequentially modifying the work or maybe even in parallel and then
+comparing versions can produce something tremendously rich, and not
+only beautiful songs and short poems, but even long epics have been
+produced in this way, and there was a time back before the mystique of
+the artist as creator, semi-divine figure was so powerful when even
+great writers reworked stories that had been written by others.  Some
+of the plays of Shakespeare involve stories that were taken from other
+plays written often a few decades before.  If today's copyright laws
+had been in effect they would have called Shakespeare a quote pirate
+unquote for writing some of his great work and so of course you would
+have had the other authors saying</p>
+
+<p><em>[English accent]</em></p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;How dare he change one line of my creation.  He couldn't
+possibly make it better.&ldquo;</p>
+
+<p><em>[faint audience chuckle]</em></p>
+
+<p>You'll hear people ridiculing this idea in exactly those terms.
+Well, I am not sure what we should do about publishing modified
+versions of these aesthetic works.  One possibility is to do something
+like what is done in music, which is anyone's allowed to rearranged
+and play a piece of music, but they may have to pay for doing so, but
+they don't have to ask permission to perform it.  Perhaps for
+commercial publication of these works, either modified or unmodified,
+if they're making money they might have to pay some money, that's one
+possibility.  It's a difficult question what to do about publishing
+modified versions of these aesthetic works and I don't have an answer
+that I'm fully satisfied with.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Audience member 1 (AM1)</strong>, question, inaudible</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Let me repeat the question because he said it
+so fast you couldn't possibly have understood it.  He said &ldquo;What
+kind of category should computer games go in?&rdquo; Well, I would say
+that the game engine is functional and the game scenario is
+aesthetic.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM1</strong>: Graphics?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Those are part of the scenario probably.  The
+specific pictures are part of the scenario; they are aesthetic,
+whereas the software for displaying the scenes is functional.  So I
+would say that if they combine the aesthetic and the functional into
+one seamless thing then the software should be treated as functional,
+but if they're willing to separate the engine and the scenario then it
+would be legitimate to say, well the engine is functional but the
+scenario is aesthetic.</p>
+
+<h3>Copyright: possible solutions</h3>
+
+<p>Now, how long should copyright last?  Well, nowadays the tendency
+in publishing is for books to go out of copyright faster and faster.
+Today in the US most books that are published are out of print within
+three years.  They've been remaindered and they're gone.  So it's
+clear that there's not real need for copyright to last for say 95
+years: it's ridiculous.  In fact, it's clear that ten year copyright
+would be sufficient to keep the activity of publishing going.  But it
+should be ten years from date of publication, but it would make sense
+to allow an additional period before publication which could even be
+longer than ten years which as you see, as long as the book has not
+been published the copyright on it is not restricting the public.
+It's basically just giving the author to have it published eventually
+but I think that once the book is published copyright should run for
+some ten years or so, then that's it.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I once proposed this in a panel where the other people were
+all writers.  And one of them said: &ldquo;Ten year copyright?  Why
+that's ridiculous!  Anything more than five years is
+intolerable.&rdquo; He was an award-winning science fiction writer who
+was complaining about the difficulty of retrouving, of pulling back,
+this is funny, French words are leaking into my English, of, of
+regaining the rights from the publisher who'd let his books go out of
+print for practical purposes but was dragging his heels about obeying
+the contract, which says that when the book is out of print the rights
+revert to the author.</p>
+
+<p>The publishers treat authors terribly you have to realise.  They're
+always demanding more power in the name of the authors and they will
+bring along a few very famous very successful writers who have so much
+clout that they can get contracts that treat them very well to testify
+saying that the power is really for their sake.  Meanwhile most
+writers who are not famous and are not rich and have no particular
+clout are being treated horribly by the publishing industry, and it's
+even worse in music.  I recommend all of you to read Courtney Love's
+article: it's in Salon magazine right?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM2</strong> (Audience member 2) Yes</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: She started out by calling the record
+companies quote pirates unquotes because of the way they treat the
+musicians.  In any case we can shorten copyright more or less.  We
+could try various lengths, we could see, we could find out empirically
+what length of copyright is needed to keep publication vigourous.  I
+would say that since almost books are out of print by ten years,
+clearly ten years should be long enough.  But it doesn't have to be
+the same for every kind of work.  For example, maybe some aspects of
+copyright for movies should last for longer, like the rights to sell
+all the paraphernalia with the pictures and characters on them.  You
+know, that's so crassly commercial it hardly matters if that is
+limited to one company in most cases.  Maybe the copyright on the
+movies themselves, maybe that's legitimate for that to last twenty
+years.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>Meanwhile for software, I suspect that a three 
year copyright
+would be enough.  You see if each version of the programme remains
+copyrighted for three years after its release well, unless the company
+is in real bad trouble they should have a new version before those
+three years are up and there will be a lot of people who will want to
+use the newer version, so if older versions are all becoming free
+software automatically, the company would still have a business with
+the newer version.  Now this is a compromise as I see it, because it
+is a system in which not all software is free, but it might be an
+acceptable compromise, after all, if we had to wait three years in
+some cases for programs to become free&hellip; well, that's no
+disaster.  To be using three years old software is not a disaster.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM3</strong>: Don't you think this is a system that would
+favour feature creep?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: <em>[airily]</em> Ah that's OK.  That's a
+minor side issue, compared with these issues of freedom encouraging,
+every system encourages some artificial distortions in what people,
+and our present system certainly encourages various kinds of
+artificial distortions in activity that is covered by copyright so if
+a changed system also encourages a few of these secondary distortions
+it's not a big deal I would say.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM4</strong>: The problem with this change in the copyright
+laws for three would be that you wouldn't get the sources.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Right.  There would have also to be a
+condition, a law that to sell copies of the software to the public the
+source code must be deposited somewhere so that three years later it
+can be released.  So it could be deposited say, with the library of
+congress in the US, and I think other countries have similar
+institutions where copies of published books get placed, and they
+could also received the source code and after three years, publish it.
+And of course, if the source code didn't correspond to the executable
+that would be fraud, and in fact if it really corresponds then they
+ought to be able to check that very easily when the work is published
+initially so you're publishing the source code and somebody there says
+alright &ldquo;dot slash configure dot slash make&rdquo; and sees if
+produces the same executables and uh.</p>
+
+<p>So you're right, just eliminating copyright would not make software
+free.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM5</strong>: Um libre</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Right.  That's the only sense I use the term.
+It wouldn't do that because the source code might not be available or
+they might try to use contracts to restrict the users instead.  So
+making software free is not as simple as ending copyright on software:
+it's a more complex situation than that.  In fact, if copyright were
+simply abolished from software then we would no longer be able to use
+copyleft to protect the free status of a program but meanwhile the
+software privateers could use other methods&mdash;contracts or
+withholding the source to make software proprietary.  So what would
+mean is, if we release a free program some greedy bastard could make a
+modified version and publish just the binaries and make people sign
+non-disclosure agreements for them.  We would no longer have a way to
+stop them.  So if we wanted to change the law that all software that
+was published had to be free we would have to do it in some more
+complex way, not just by turning copyright for software.</p>
+
+<p>So, overall I would recommend we look at the various kinds of works
+and the various different kinds of uses and then look for a new place
+to draw the line: one that gives the public the most important
+freedoms for making use of each new kind of work while when possible
+retaining some kind of fairly painless kind of copyright for general
+public that is still of benefit to authors.  In this way we can adapt
+the copyright system to the circumstances where we find it we find
+ourselves and have a system that doesn't require putting people in
+prison for years because they shared with their friends, but still
+does in various ways encourage people to write more.  We can also I
+believe look for other ways of encouraging writing other ways of
+facilitating authors making money.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>For example, suppose that verbatim
+redistribution of a work is permitted and suppose that the work comes
+with something, so that when you are playing with it or reading it,
+there is a box on the side that says &ldquo;click here to send one
+dollar to the authors or the musicians or whatever&rdquo; I think that
+in the wealthier parts of the world a lot of people will send it
+because people often really love the authors and musicians that made
+the things that they like to read and listen to.  And the interesting
+thing is that the royalty that they get now is such a small fraction
+that if you pay twenty dollars for something they're probably not
+getting more than one anyway.</p>
+
+<p>So this will be a far more efficient system.  And the interesting
+thing will be that when people redistribute these copies they will be
+helping the author.  Essentially advertising them, spreading around
+these reasons to send them a dollar.  Now right now the biggest reason
+why more people don't just send some money to the authors is that it's
+a pain in the neck to do it.  What are you going to do?  Write a
+cheque?  Then who are you going to mail the cheque to?  You'd have to
+dig up their address, which might not be easy.  But with a convenient
+internet payment system which makes it efficient to pay someone one
+dollar, then we could put this into all the copies, and then I think
+you'd find the mechanism starting to work well.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>It may take five of
+ten years for the ideas to spread around, because it's a cultural
+thing, you know, at first people might find it a little surprising but
+once it gets normal people would become accustomed to sending the
+money, and it wouldn't be a lot of money compared to what it costs to
+buy books today.</p>
+
+<p><em>[drinks]</em></p>
+
+<p>So I think that in this way, for the works of expression, and maybe
+aesthetic works, maybe this could a successful method.  But it won't
+work for the functional works, and the reason for that is that as one
+person after another makes a modified version and publishes it, who
+should the boxes point to, and how much money should they send, and
+you know, it's easy to do this when the work was published just once,
+by a certain author, or certain group of authors, and they can just
+agree together what they're going to do and click on the box, if
+no-one is publishing modified versions then every copy will contain
+the same box with the same URL directing money to the same people but
+when you have different version which have been worked on by different
+people there's no simple automatic way of working out who ought to get
+what fraction of what users donate for this version or that version.
+
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>It's philosophically hard to decide how 
important each contribution
+is, and all the obvious ways of trying to measure it
+are <em>[emphasis]</em> obviously
+<em>[/emphasis]</em> wrong in some cases, they're obviously closing
+their eyes to some important part of the facts so I think that this
+kind of solution is probably not feasible when everybody is free to
+publish modified versions.  But for those kinds of works where it is
+not crucial to have the freedom to publish modified versions then this
+solution can be applied very simply once we have the convenient
+internet payment system to base it on.</p>
+
+<p>With regard to the aesthetic works.  If there is a system where
+those who commercially redistribute or maybe even those who are
+publishing a modified version might have to negotiate the sharing of
+the payments with the original developers and then this kind of scheme
+could be extended to those works too even if modified versions are
+permitted there could be some standard formula which could be in some
+cases renegotiated, so I think in some cases probably possible even
+with a system of permitting in some way publishing modified versions
+of the aesthetic works it may be possible still to have this kind of
+voluntary payment system.</p>
+
+<p>Now I believe there a people who are trying to set up such
+voluntary payment systems.  I heard of something called the street
+performer's protocol.  I don't know the details of it.  And I believe
+there is something called GreenWitch.com <em>[transcriber's note: URL
+uncertain]</em> I believe the people there are trying to set up
+something more or less like this.  I think that what they are hoping
+to do is collect a bunch of payments that you make to various
+different people, and eventually charge your credit card once it gets
+to be big enough so that it's efficient.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>Whether those kind of
+systems work smoothly enough in practice that they'll get going is not
+clear, and whether they will become adopted widely enough for them to
+become a normal cultural practice is not clear.  It may be that in
+order for these voluntary payments to truly catch on we need to have
+some kind of&hellip; you need to see the idea everywhere in order
+to&hellip; &ldquo;Yeah, I outta pay&ldquo; once in a while.  We'll
+see.</p>
+
+<p>There is evidence ideas like this are not unreasonable.  If you
+look at for example public radio in the US, which is mostly supported
+by donations from listeners, you have I believe, millions of people
+donating, I'm not sure how many exactly but there are many public
+radio stations which are supported by their listeners and they seem to
+be finding it easier to get donations as time goes on.  Ten years ago
+they would have maybe six weeks of the year when they were spending
+most of their time asking people &ldquo;Please send some money, don't
+you think we're important enough&rdquo; and so on 24 hours a day, and
+now a lot of them have found that they can raise the contributions by
+sending people mail who sent them donations in the past, and they
+don't have to spend their airtime drumming up the donations.</p>
+
+<p>Fundamentally, the stated purpose of copyright: to encourage
+righting is a worthwhile purpose, but we have to look at ways of ways
+to achieve it that are not so harsh, and not so constricting of the
+use of the works whose developments we have encouraged and I believe
+that digital technology is providing us with solutions to the problem
+as well as creating a context where we need to solve the problem.  So
+that's the end of this talk, and are there questions?</p>
+
+<h3>Questions and discussion</h3>
+<p>First of all, what time is the next talk?  What time is it now?</p>
+
+<p><strong>Me</strong>: The time is quarter past three.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Oh really?  So I'm late already?  Well I hope
+Melanie will permit me to accept a few questions.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong> (Audience member 6): Who will decide in which
+of your three categories will a work fit?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: I don't know.  I'm sure there are various
+ways of deciding.  You can probably tell a novel when you see one.  I
+suspect judges can tell a novel when they see one too.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM7</strong>: Any comment on encryption?  And the
+interaction of encryption devices with copyrighted materials?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, encryption is being used as a means of
+controlling the public.  The publishers are trying to impose various
+encryption systems on the public so that they can block the public
+from copying.  Now they call these things technological methods, but
+really they all rest on laws prohibiting people from by-passing them,
+and without those laws none of these methods would accomplish its
+purpose, so they are all based on direct government intervention to
+stop people from copying and I object to them very strongly, and I
+will not accept those media.  If as a practical matter the means to
+copy something are not available to me I won't buy it, and I hope you
+won't buy it either.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>: In France we have a law that says that even
+if the media is protected you have the right to copy again for backup
+purpose</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Yes it used to be that way in the US as well
+until 2 years ago.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>: Very often you sign an agreement that is
+illegal in France&hellip; the contract you are supposed to sign with a
+mouse&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, maybe they're not.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM8</strong>: How can we get it challenged?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: <em>[rhetorically]</em> Well are you going to
+challenge them?  It costs money, it takes trouble, and not only that,
+how would you do it?  Well, you could either try to go to a court and
+say, &ldquo;They have no right to ask people to sign this contract
+because it is an invalid contract&rdquo; but that might be difficult
+if the distributor is in the US.  French law about what is a valid
+contract couldn't be used to stop them in the US.  On the other hand
+you could also say &ldquo;I signed this contract but it's not valid in
+France so I am publicly disobeying, and I challenge them to sue
+me.&rdquo; Now that you might consider doing, and if you're right and
+the laws are not valid in France then the case would get thrown out.
+I don't know.  Maybe that is a good idea to do, I don't know whether,
+what its effects politically would be.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>I know that there was just a
+couple of years ago a law was passed in Europe to prohibit some kind
+of private copying of music, and the record companies trotted out some
+famous very popular musicians to push for this law and they got it, so
+it's clear that they have a lot of influence here too, and it's
+possible that they will get more, just pass another law to change
+this.  We have to think about the political strategy for building the
+constituency to resist such changes and the actions we take should be
+designed to accomplish that.  Now, I'm no expert on how to accomplish
+that in Europe but that's what people should think about.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: What about protection of private
+correspondence?</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, if you're not <em>[emphasis]</em>
+publishing <em>[/emphasis]</em> it that's a completely different
+issue.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: No, but if I send an email to somebody,
+that's automatically under my copyright.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: <em>[forcefully]</em> That's entirely
+irrelevant actually.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: No, I don't accept that.  If they're going to
+publish it in a newspaper.  At the moment my redress is my
+copyright.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, you can't make him keep secret the
+contents and I'm not sure actually.  I mean to me, I think there's
+some injustice in that.  If you for example, send a letter to somebody
+threatening to sue him and then you tell him you can't tell anybody I
+did this because my threat is copyrighted, that's pretty obnoxious,
+and I'm not sure that it would even be upheld.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: Well, there are circumstances where I want to
+correspond with someone and keep my (and their) reply, entirely
+private.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well if you and they agree to keep it
+private, then that's a different matter entirely.  I'm sorry the two
+issues can not be linked, and I don't have time to consider that issue
+today.  There's another talk scheduled to start soon.  But I think it
+is a total mistake for copyright to apply to such situations.  The
+ethics of those situations are completely different from the ethics of
+published works and so they should be treated in an appropriate way,
+which is completely different.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: That's fair enough, but at the moment the
+only redress one has is copyright&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: <em>[interrupts]</em> No you're wrong.  If
+people have agreed to keep something private then you have other
+redress.  In Europe there are privacy laws, and the other thing is,
+you don't have a right to force someone to keep secrets for you.  At
+most, you could force him to paraphrase it, because he has a right to
+tell people what you did.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: Yes, but I assuming that the two people at
+either end are both in reasonable agreement.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well then, don't say that copyright is your
+only recourse.  If he's in agreement he isn't going to give it to a
+newspaper is he?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: No, er, you're sidestepping my question about
+interception.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Oh interception.  That's a totally
+different&hellip; <em>[heatedly]</em> no you didn't ask about
+interception.  This is the first time you mentioned
+interception&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM6</strong>: No it's the second time.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM9</strong>: <em>[murmurs assent to AM6]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: <em>[still heated]</em> Well I didn't hear
+you before&hellip; it's totally silly&hellip; it's like trying
+to&hellip; oh how can I compare?&hellip; it's like trying to kill an
+elephant with a waffle iron I mean they have nothing to do with each
+other.</p>
+
+<p><em>[uninterpretable silence falls]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>AM10</strong>: Have you thought about
+changes <em>[inaudible, in trade secrets?]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Uh yes: Trade secrets has developed in a very
+ominous and menacing direction.  It used to be that trade secrecy
+meant that you wanted to keep something secret so you didn't tell
+anybody, and later on it was something that was done within a business
+telling just a few people something and they would agree to keep it
+secret.  But now, it's turning into something where the public in
+general is becoming conscripted into keeping secrets for business even
+if they have never agreed in any way to keep these secrets and that's
+a pressure.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>So those who pretend that trade secrecy is 
just carrying
+out some natural right of theirs; that's just not true any more.
+They're getting explicit government help in forcing other people to
+keep their secrets.  And we might want to consider whether
+non-disclosure agreements should in general be considered legitimate
+contracts because of the anti-social nature of trade secrecy it
+shouldn't be considered automatic that just because somebody has
+promised to keep a secret that that means it's binding.</p>
+
+<p>Maybe in some cases it should be and in some cases it should not be.
+If there's a clear public benefit from knowing then maybe that should
+invalidate the contract, or maybe it should be valid when it is signed
+with customers or maybe between a business and a, maybe when a business
+supplies secrets to its suppliers that should be legitimate, but to its
+customers, no.</p>
+
+<p>There are various possibilities one can think of, but at the very
+start anybody who hasn't voluntarily agreed to keep the secrets should
+not be bound by trade secrecy.  That's the way it was until not long
+ago.  Maybe it still is that way in Europe, I'm not sure.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>: Is is OK for a company to ask say its&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: employees?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>: No no</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: suppliers?</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM11</strong>: yes, suppliers.  What if the customer is
+another supplier?</p>
+
+<p><em>[gap as minidisk changed]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Let's start by not encouraging it.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM12</strong>: I have a question regarding your opinion on
+the scientific work on journals and textbooks.  In my profession at
+least one official journal and textbook are available on-line, but
+they retain copyright, but there is free access to the resources
+provided they have internet access.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, that's good.  But there are many
+journals where it is not like that.  For example, the ACM journals you
+can't access unless you are a subscriber: they're blocked.  So I think
+journals should all start opening up access on the web.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM12</strong>: So what impact does that have on the
+significance of copyright on the public when you basically don't
+interfere with providing free access on the web.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Well, first of all, I disagree.  Mirror sites
+are essential, so the journal should only provide open access but they
+should also give everyone the freedom to set up mirror sites with
+verbatim copies of these papers.  If not then there is a danger that
+they will get lost.  Various kinds of calamities could cause them to
+be lost, you know, natural disasters, political disasters, technical
+disasters, bureaucratic disasters, fiscal disasters&hellip; All sorts
+of things could cause that one site to disappear.  So really what the
+scholarly community should logically be doing is carefully arranging
+to have a wide network of mirror sites making sure that every paper is
+available on every continent, from places near the ocean to places
+that are far inland and you know this is exactly the kind of thing
+that major libraries will feel is their mission if only they were not
+being stopped.</p>
+
+<p>So what should be done, is that these journals should go one step
+further.  In addition to saying everybody can access the site they
+should be saying, everyone can set up a mirror site.  Even if they
+said, you have to do the whole publication of this journal, together
+with our advertisements, now that would still at least do the job of
+making the availability redundant so that it's not in danger, and
+other institutions would set up mirror sites, and I predict that you
+would find ten years down the road, a very well organised unofficial
+system of co-ordinating the mirroring to make sure that nothing was
+getting left out.  
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>At this point the amount that it costs to set 
up
+the mirror site for years of a journal is so little that it doesn't
+require any special funding; nobody has to work very hard: just let
+librarians do it.  Anyway, oh there was some other thing that this
+raised and I can't remember what it is.  Oh well, I'll just have to
+let it go.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM13</strong>: The financing problem for the aesthetical
+works&hellip; do you think the dynamics could
+be&hellip; <em>[inaudible]</em> although I understand the problems
+of&hellip; I mean who's contributing?  And who will be rewarded?  Does
+the spirit of free software <em>[inaudible]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: I don't know.  It's certainly suggesting the
+idea to people.  We'll see.  I don't the answers, I don't know how
+we're going to get there, I'm trying to think about where we should
+get to.  I know know how we can get there.  The publishers are so
+powerful, and can get governments to do their bidding.  How we're
+going to build up the kind of world where the public refuses to
+tolerate this any more I don't know.  I think the first thing we have
+to do is to clearly reject the term pirate and the views that go with
+it.  Every time we hear that we have to speak out and say this is
+propaganda, it's not wrong for people to share these published works
+with each other, it's sharing with you friend, it's good.  And sharing
+with your friend is more important than how much money these companies
+get.  The society shouldn't be shaped for the sake of these companies.
+<span class="gnun-split"></span>
+We have to keep on&hellip; because you see the idea that they've
+spread&mdash;that anything that reduces their income is immoral and
+therefore people must be restricted in any way it takes to guarantee
+for them to be paid for everything&hellip; that is the fundamental
+thing that we have to start attacking directly.  People have mostly
+tried tactics of concentrating on secondary issues, you know, to when
+people, you know when the publishers demand increased power usually
+people saying it will cause some secondary kind of harm and arguing
+based on that but you rarely find anybody (except me) saying that the
+whole point of the change is wrong, that it's wrong to restrict it in
+that way, that it's legitimate for people to want to change copies and
+that they should be allowed to.  We have to have more of this.  We
+have to start cutting the root of their dominion not just hacking away
+at a few leaves.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM14</strong>: <em>[inaudible]</em> this is important is to
+concentrate on the donations system for music.</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: Yes.  Unfortunately though there are patents
+covering the technique that seems most likely to be usable.</p>
+
+<p><em>[laughs, cries of &ldquo;no&rdquo; from audience]</em></p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: So it may take ten years before we can do it.</p>
+
+<p><strong>AM15</strong>: We only take French laws</p>
+
+<p><strong>RMS</strong>: I don't know.  I think I'd better hand the
+floor over to Melanie whose talk was supposed to start at 3.  And uh
+so</p>
+
+<p>RMS stands in silence.  There is a pause before the outbreak of
+applause.  RMS turns to applaud the stuffed fabric gnu he placed on
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