"Until the enactment of the Statute of Anne publishers could pass on their
royal grants of copyright to their heirs in perpetuity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_copyright#Battle_of_the_booksellers_.28UK.29
This is clearly wrong. Copyright should be short, only last a generation
(14--25 years). Heirs excluded. Derivative works should be legal even earlier
than expiration. It's funny we are more or less in the same situation that
called for enactment of the Statute off Anne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
There's practicality in lots of art and even games can be practical.
Architecture is very much practical. Chess is a game that is practical. GNU
Chess was one of the first pieces of GNU, even predating the manifesto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Chess
