"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jfnoph$p5c$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 24/01/2012 00:13, Walter Bright wrote: > <snip> >> Copyrights expire after 20 years. Renewable for another 20 years for a >> fee of $1000/year >> per registered copyright. >
I can't answer for Walter. But, for me: > So your idea is to make it harder for people to keep their works > copyrighted? > God yes. > Under your plan, what will happen to copyrighted works that have existed > for years? Will they expire right away if they're 20 or more years old, Hopefully. > or remain under copyright for 20 years from now? > > And will existing rules (literature expires 70 years after the author's > death, music recordings expire 50 years after creation, etc.) still apply > in addition to this? > All of those copyright extension acts, such as Sunny Bozo's, should be retroactively nullified.
