In a message dated 1/4/2005 3:26:37 PM Mountain Standard Time, holden.mcgroin@dsl.pipex.com writes:
The people who really benefit from copyrights are the publishers. Longer copyrights mean
longer periods without competition from low-cost public domain publishers.
Again, yea verily. That's one of the reasons why, as
soon as a book goes out of print, the writer should
ask for copyright reversion. Too many people don't
think to do that.
 
Anne