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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need to make copyright much, much shorter. Is 7 years too long to make money?


49 posted on 06/07/2014 8:01:00 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

The original purpose of copyright was to allow individuals to profit from their work. That has transmogrified to corporations collecting rent forever on works they had nothing to do with creating.


53 posted on 06/07/2014 8:07:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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