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Originally Posted by elcreative
You can disagree all you like but you can't change the meaning of the English language and put very simply, "Quite long" does NOT equal "Unlimited," these have distinctly different meanings...
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Then by your definition they could change it to life plus 1000 years and that is still limited. Hell, why don't we make it life plus 1 millions years. That's still limited. My point was that the constitution says congress can grant limited rights to the the
author. It does not say anything about giving them to the author's heirs in perpetuity. But that could effectively be done and still fit your definition of limited. My definition of limited is within regards to the original author. If they are guaranteed to exceed the lifespan of the author, then in regards to the original author their rights are unlimited. After they die does not count in regards to the original author's limitation. If the constitution had said "The Congress shall have Power [. . .] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors, Inventors and
their heirs the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Then I would say you are right that it is limited with regards to that group. I've seen no amendment to the constitution that extends this right to the heirs and the original author has no limits within their lifetime no matter how long they own the copyright.
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