On 21 May 2012 18:59, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think the right term here is "0 years". It is also not "life > + 70". Perhaps "7 + 7".
I suggested 14 as a likely figure because that figure is already in common currency - as it was the term in the UK (Statute of Anne) and in the US (Copyright Act of 1790). And then Sage Ross turned up the recent study suggesting a 15-year term would be the correct length to maximise artistic production (though I think the number is a bit conveniently close to 14 years and would like to see multiple competing studies that show their working): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186 The Economist also ran an editorial pushing 14 years: http://www.economist.com/node/1547223 So, yeah, "14 year term" is the meme. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l