Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

"Michelle Steiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Mike Kohary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >He is the artist; he gets to call the shots.
> >
> > Doesn't make it right.
>
> According to you.  I don't see anything wrong with it.

Of course it's according to me - who else?  I speak for myself.  And do you
plan to continue asking simplistic questions or making flat assertions, or
are you actually going to state a position and then support it with
well-reasoned argumentation?

To repeat myself for the third time:  Star Wars (1977) is an important piece
of cinematic and artistic history, and it deserves to be preserved in its
original state, irregardless of how George Lucas feels about that.  An
artist should have control over the creation of his work, yes, and Lucas has
had that with the entire Star Wars series (contrary to what you first
stated).  However, that does not necessarily include control over the
distribution of said work.  Once a work is released, it belongs to the
audience as much as the artist.

Now, an artist should have the full benefit and opportunity to profit from
the distribution of his work, and to generally control the distribution of
his work.  That's what copyright is all about, and I fully support that.
But I submit that it's immoral to release a work, and then withhold it
*forever*, with no intention of ever releasing it again.  Lucas is the
artist, but he does not have the moral right to decide that the millions
upon millions of people who experienced the cinematic revelation that was
Star Wars (1977) will never get to see it again.

Judging from the numerous factual errors that you've introduced to this
thread so far, I wonder how much you actually know about Star Wars and its
history.  If you disagree with my position and care to rebut, please try to
do it with more than one sentence, and please try to do your research first
(or ask if you want to know something you don't currently know).

Mike