On Wednesday 13 April 2005 12:15 pm, Todd Walton wrote: > On 4/13/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the time limits of copyright are absurd right now. I'd like to see a > > bit more than 10 years, at least for artistic creations > > Is there no objective standard of measuring these things? I mean, > where does 10 years come from? Why not 10 1/2 or 30? And would you > really ask the government to start deciding what counts as art and > what doesn't?
Again go read Thomas Jefferson as a starting point. He has an argument based upon an estimate of the inventor's lifespan that he used to come up with the initial term of a patent. It was far from completely arbitrary and holds up well with the passage of 200 years. boblq -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
