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Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal
New submitter SpockLogic writes "The Telegraphs has a tongue in cheek essay in praise of eternal copyright by the founder of an online games company. Quoting: 'Imagine you're a new parent at 30 years old and you've just published a bestselling new novel. Under the current system, if you lived to 70 years old and your descendants all had children at the age of 30, the copyright in your book – and thus the proceeds – would provide for your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren? What do they get? How can our laws be so heartless as to deny them the benefit of your hard work in the name of some do-gooding concept as the "public good," simply because they were born a mere century and a half after the book was written? After all, when you wrote your book, it sprung from your mind fully-formed, without requiring any inspiration from other creative works – you owe nothing at all to the public. And what would the public do with your book, even if they had it? Most likely, they'd just make it worse.'"
You call it sarcasm, they call it talking points. Stop giving them ideas, asshole!!
Oh please let this be satire and not something serious
I kept waiting for the baby eating, but it never happened.
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Clearly you didn't read it, or you can't read.
Since it had such a jab...
Socialist! Is a man not entitled to the sweat from his great-great-great-grandfather's brow?!
Sheldon, mathematical liberties are allowed when used in hyperbole.
No, it will definitely end. About 70 years after the last human died.
you think copyright will be ended by the extinction of the human race?
oh you poor naive sod, there are plans for that.
I think it's odd that the Ouhg family is still seeing the benefits of the 'wheel' patent.
No, it will definitely end. About 70 years after the last human died.
you think copyright will be ended by the extinction of the human race? oh you poor naive sod, there are plans for that.
No, he thinks we'll all go extinct before 2018, when congress plans to extend it from life+70 to life+90.
No, it will definitely end. About 70 years after the last lawyer died.
There. FTFY.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
The first archeologist to discover the copyrighted works of humanity will be summarily executed by Automated Copyright Enforcement Mechanism.
I have nothing to lose but my bindings.
No, cockroaches have more ethics than that :)