On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:13:05AM +0000, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 13/01/2003 at 11:05 +0000, Andy Wardley wrote: > > >In short, the Disney corporation is making sure that no-one ever does > >to them what Walt Disney did to others. The term of copyright law has > >been extended 11 times in the last 40 years, coincidentally around the > >time that the copyright on the first Disney movies was about to expire. > > I believe it was Aaron Schwartz who put it more forcefully on his blog: > > Copyright term has been extended for 40 years in the last 40 years. > > If this goes on, nothing that is not already in the public domain > will emerge again. Now, if you're a book author whose works are > likely to make money forever, and who wants their grandchildren to > have a licence to print money, that's maybe fair enough. But I doubt > Dave Cross is the only person on his list who doubts whether his book > is going to be out of date in 10 years, let alone 100. In fact, even > amongst authors, I expect he's in the vast majority.
Some of it is looking a little dated already :) Dave... -- And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning.
