[zarf]

garbage. it takes that long or double or triple as a songwriter or novelist to get their work to market.

Copyright for the life of the author plus a certain amount of years is fair.

I get a kick out of how many people believe that they are entitled to "free" use of anothers property.

[Rain-maker]

Too bad nothing is essentially orginal, just a recomposition of the same words and melodies since the dawn of man. Maybe they should copyright thoughts and labotimize you for thinking the same...rofl

[FreedomPoster]

>>I get a kick out of how many people believe that they are entitled to "free" use of anothers property

Intellectual property is a legal construct. There is the legal construct that was originally in the Constitution, and there is today's legal construct that was largely put in place by legislation bought and paid for by large publishing/media houses.

I see nothing wrong with lobbying and encouraging a return to something somewhat closer to what was originally in the Constitution. To argue that someone doing so, is for "free" use of IP, is either ignorant or disingenuous.

That said, I agree with the limit you propose, life of the author plus a few years, say no more than 20. Perpetual copyright, primarily for the benefit of large media houses, is absurd, and is pretty much where we are at today.

[weegee]

I get a kick out of how many people believe that they are entitled to "free" use of anothers property.

Do you feel any guilt reading the news articles on Free Republic rather than hopping to the source websites every few minutes (and viewing their popups/banners/etc)?

Do you subscribe to all of those publications so that you can view their archives without reading the full the text on FR?