A good article overall. I think he's missing the point on a couple things though. Mainly he doesn't understand that copyright is not an inalienable right of an author and its primary purpose is not to provide income for the rest of an author's life. Indeed, it really only fulfills its purpose by having a short lifetime. By providing financial encouragement for a limited time, the author has the resources to create more works but there's a deadline. Either make up new stuff or get a new job.
I would think it to be reasonable to have renewable copyrights for 1 or 2 extra terms if the author is really having that much success. But if the copyright isn't helping the author then there's no benefit to society by having the work kept out of the public domain, and that's the whole reason we have copyright. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
