--- Holden McGroin <holden.mcgroin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
However, that goal has been subverted. Copyright is no longer designed to reward artists for creation. It's designed solely to give lengthy monopolies to corporations.
Indeed. Life+X copyright terms, in general, *are* absurd. Under the life+70 regime in my country, if I publish a book when I'm 20, and live until 90, that book will be copy restricted for 140 years! This isn't a wild fantasy scenario, either -- recently on DP we proofread a book published in 1880, written by an author who died in 1933 (and which therefore only become copy restriction free at the beginning of last year). -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com