Posted on 03/20/2013 8:41:58 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
On the contrary -- if the government can't enforce the legitimate prerogatives of copyright holders, that's all the more reason to scale back the excessive ones.
The situation is similar to the "gun control" issue: even leaving aside the basic philosophical issues, it's stupid for the government to micro-manage magazine sizes and whatnot when it can't even keep dangerous criminals off the streets.
No, I disagree. You have given a flawed analogy. A better one is if the government cannot keep dangerous criminals off the streets, should we drastically reduce the sentences for those few criminals we do catch? We are talking about reducing the length of protection for legitimate owners.
As I said earlier, I am not opposed to reducing the length of copyright for a few years, and maybe even by 10 or 20 years. I disagree with reducing it by almost 90%. In my above analogy, I would not be opposed to reducing sentence lengths in some crimes, but I would be strongly opposed to almost 90% reductions in sentence lengths on the average.
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