begin quoting m ike as of Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:18:05PM -0700: > > Otherwise, Shakespeare (and other valuable works) would be owned by the > > individual (or in todays context, corporations) forever, and noone would > > be able to use them without paying the copyright owner a fee > > Honestly, I do not see what is wrong with that. In these terms, a > leveled economic playing field would benefit young writers. Sounds > good to me.
All great writing "steals" from what came before. The public domain is the soil in which creativity grows. Ever-increasing copyrights make the soil poor. -Stewart "Nothing new under the sun" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
