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"Strict Italian privacy laws prevent us from learning more about him." Is privacy really an issue 100 years after the person's death?
by skookumchuck 8y ago
"Strict Italian privacy laws prevent us from learning more about him."
Is privacy really an issue 100 years after the person's death?
- labster 8y agoI can't believe you're suggesting that a person's privacy is less important than their copyright terms.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoThat assumes that he views copyright timelines as reasonable.
- honestoHeminway 8y agoOn a galactic timeline copyright terms are only the blink of an eye.
- pathseeker 8y agoI can't believe you're suggesting that stealing is reasonable. See, I can make things up too.
- Udik 8y agoCopyright terms expire 70 years after the death of the author, right?
- pawelmurias 8y agoI would guess a lot of people who actually own some valuable copyrights value them more then privacy.
- w-m 8y agoYou can find a telephone number of someone named Temperini who is living in Montalcino, by doing a quick search in the Italian telephone book. Surely it wouldn't break any laws just calling there?
- coldtea 8y agoNo, it would just make no sense.
- w-m 8y agoWhy not? Many people research their ancestry at some point in their lives and the name does not seem to be very common.
- coldtea 8y agoWell, the guy will learn soon enough anyway if they don't already know (whether they're relatives or just share the same name). Why would it take some people to call them on the other end of the world?
- magduf 8y agoYou could do this for any historical name. Just pick up a history book, find a random person in there, and then look up people with the same last name: you're bound to find some. Who would cold-call some person who happens to share a last name with some 16th-century person who got a footnote in a history book somewhere? And why does this matter? At what point can we finally say "this person has been dead for ages, and we don't need to worry about protecting their privacy any more"? Do we need to worry about protecting the privacy of people whose corpses were found in Pompeii, who were killed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius almost 2000 years ago, in 79CE? Seriously, this is absurd.