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Originally Posted by gmw
Yes, the times they are a changin' (thanks Bob), but have some thought for those what started their careers when books were all printed. Put yourself in the author's position: imagine you own a work still in print after 15 years and discover that someone wants to arbitrarily take away your entitlement to that income, all for some strange idea that they are automatically entitled to copy that work for free.
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For most of written history, copying others work was expected and encouraged. Copyright is the anomaly. An embarrassment according to Jefferson.
It has been said that ideas cannot be copyrighted but that is simply not true. The form of an ideas expression is tangential to the idea itself. If you must have your copyright, then we must ask for a more limited time than currently given.
