Patrick Gillam wrote: >>>>On Jun 7, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Bhairitu wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Thomas Jefferson believed that copyrights and >>>>>patents should only last 3 years. >>>>> >>>>> > >A short life for copyrights and patents doesn't >seem fair to me. If I build a house, I own it for >life, and can pass it on to my heirs. But if I build >a novel, song or widget, the public gets to use >it for free after a while. > >I understand the argument for passing knowledge >into the public domain, but still... > >We have a lot of knowledge workers here. How >do you guys feel about it? > > > I'm also a copyright holder and have been involved in software patents (drug kicking and screaming by the company I worked for). One of the things I learned from TM was that we probably don't actually create things but instead implement ideas that arise from the transcendent. I think that about 1000 people have the same idea at same time, 100 act on it, 10 actually finish and 1 gets to sell it. There was nothing wrong with the law the way it was.
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