Re: Ancient wares and present values

[Charles Richmond <richmond@dallas.net>]

Frank Townsend wrote:
> 
> The US Constitution does not specify the term of copyright, but grants to
> the Congress the power to specify that term.
> 
> The current term as enacted by Congress is as follows:
> 
> "Works Originally Created On or After January 1, 1978
> A work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or
> after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its
> creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus
> an additional 70 years after the author's death. In the case of "a joint
> work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire," the term
> lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author's death. For works made
> for hire, and for anonymous and pseudonymous works (unless the author's
> identity is revealed in Copyright Office records), the duration of copyright
> will be 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is
> shorter."
> 
And they are out of their ever-loving minds!!!  They can make all the
laws they
want, but I look forward to a day when it is *so* easy to copy things
that the
idea of a copywrite law will be ludicrous!!!  Write what you will, sell
it for
what you can, and take advantage of all the laws available...but it will
all come
to an end before too many years...

IMHO the copyleft people have the right idea (mostly)...you get paid for creating
something and for supporting it, but *not* for re-selling it for the
next upteen
years while supported by an artificial barrier for others to use and
sell it...

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