Monday, October 23, 2006

Reader Voices: Copyright Duration

Reader Voices: Copyright Duration
by ED FOSTER
InfoWorld, publication date: 20 October 2006
"Others thought a more modest rollback of the copyright term is in order. 'The current term of copyright is obscenely long -- why should your great-grandchildren get royalties on something you created? One of the sanest suggestions I have heard came from Orson Scott Card, someone who makes his living as a writer, who suggests the longer of 100 years or lifetime of the author plus 20 years. "

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