I don't know. As technology becomes cheaper and politicians become more expensive, we may reach a tipping point where zombie houses prevail.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim McNamara Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:15 To: User LilyPond Subject: Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:38 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > I expect that in a few years, composers becoming famous in their life > time will get life support systems paid by their publishers, > preferably after they are brain dead but in a defensible way not > legally dead, in order to be able to extend copyrights. > > Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some > parts of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of > copyright extensions. LOL!!! In the US the primary driver of copyright extension ad infinitum has been Disney. When they bump up towards the 7- year limit after disney's death they will just buy enough votes in Congress to extent the copyright to 140 years. It'll cost them a few million dollars but that's a lot cheaper in the long run than running a zombie house. ;-) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
