"Chris Crossen" <ch...@crossen.net> writes: > lilypond-user-bounces+chris=crossen....@gnu.org wrote: >> >> On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:38 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some >>> parts of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of >>> copyright extensions. >> >> 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. ;-) > > I don't know. As technology becomes cheaper and politicians become > more expensive, we may reach a tipping point where zombie houses > prevail.
You could combine both. The UK already has a House of Lords. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
