On 6/17/00 10:25 AM, Lizard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>Copyright laws are, for the most part, reasonable. A lot of the worst
>abuses in recent years have come from trademarks.
Reasonable? Consider that the term on copyrights was extended to 75
years for the sole purpose of granting Disney more income from them.
Consider that this happened just as the copyrights on Disney's creations
were due to expire.
Consider then, that Copyright is intended to preserve the incentive to
creative. How, pray tell, is extending a DEAD person's copyright right
by 25 years an incentive for _them_ to create?
Copyright has been getting progressively more and more abused by IP
holders (like Disney) as the years go on.
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Russ Taylor (http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/)
CMC Tech Support Manager
"I'm a reasonable man." -- Evil, Time Bandits
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