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I went looking for them...

These guys think indefinite copyright would maximise social welfare:
1. Optimal Copyright Length for Media Content: A Gundam Approach - http://www.jlea.jp/06kougai03.pdf
2. Optimal copyright length and ex post investment: a Mickey Mouse approach - http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1551/
3. The Economic Structure of Intellectual Copyright Law (Landes & Powney 2003): http://books.google.com/books/about/The_economic_structure_of_intellectual_p.html?id=X-KkvbT6F4UC

The only thing I could find (in Google Scholar) recommending short-lived copyright was this CED report, The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property (see conclusion #5) - http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/digital_economy/report_dcc.pdf

I's like to see links to those '7 year' studies too.

This makes me wonder if anyone even looks into the source of these reports.

Here we have an organization publishing a paper that is encouraging the use of Open Source in the government, yet these are the same people that are for globalization and outsourcing, which time and time again have been denigrated and crucified here on Slashdot and other sites of a similar nation.

I mean, check out their own About page (http://www.ced.org/about/chairman.shtml):

GLOBALIZATION & TRADE
CED's international program remains strong and saw the completion of a second project chaired by James D. Robinson III, General Partner and Co-Founder, RRE Ventures, on trade and outsourcing entitled, "Making Trade Work: Straight Talk on Jobs, Trade, and Adjustment." At CED's annual dinner on May 19, 2004, General Motors received our Excellence in Public Policy Award, and GM's former chairman and chief executive officer from 1992 to 2000, Jack Smith, spoke about GM's commitment to global corporate citizenship and also presented an overview of his company's activities in the Peoples Republic of China. GM's current chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner, presented the CED award to Mr. Smith.

Just have a look at their projects page, and after reading the transcripts of some of their meetings, you might start wondering what's behind this interest in Open Source (http://www.ced.org/projects.shtml).

So, I guess they're OK when they're 'pursuing the Open Source agenda', but when they release a report tomorrow on how free global trade and outsourcing is the next best thing to sliced bread, we can call them devils?

Help me out here, folks....

This makes me wonder if anyone even looks into the source of these reports.

Here we have an organization publishing a paper that is encouraging the use of Open Source in the government, yet these are the same people that are for globalization and outsourcing, which time and time again have been denigrated and crucified here on Slashdot and other sites of a similar nation.

I mean, check out their own About page (http://www.ced.org/about/chairman.shtml):

GLOBALIZATION & TRADE
CED's international program remains strong and saw the completion of a second project chaired by James D. Robinson III, General Partner and Co-Founder, RRE Ventures, on trade and outsourcing entitled, "Making Trade Work: Straight Talk on Jobs, Trade, and Adjustment." At CED's annual dinner on May 19, 2004, General Motors received our Excellence in Public Policy Award, and GM's former chairman and chief executive officer from 1992 to 2000, Jack Smith, spoke about GM's commitment to global corporate citizenship and also presented an overview of his company's activities in the Peoples Republic of China. GM's current chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner, presented the CED award to Mr. Smith.

Just have a look at their projects page, and after reading the transcripts of some of their meetings, you might start wondering what's behind this interest in Open Source (http://www.ced.org/projects.shtml).

So, I guess they're OK when they're 'pursuing the Open Source agenda', but when they release a report tomorrow on how free global trade and outsourcing is the next best thing to sliced bread, we can call them devils?

Help me out here, folks....

Here is the link to the full report (101 page .pdf) if anyone is interested:
CED Report

Don't download this unless you have some free time... the 617 KB, 101 page PDF can be found here on the CED website.

Don't download this unless you have some free time... the 617 KB, 101 page PDF can be found here on the CED website.