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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Since I only had two extremes, I chose the "do away with"....
I do think 3 generations past the death of an author is far too long, and would settle for simply shortened copyright.
I have a friend who is writing a (reference) book who has licensed her book thus: (quoted in part)
The link to the full post containing her full licensing information is HERE. She has a great sense of humour but actually does intend to print that in the front of her book. |
As your friend's blog rightly points out, copyright and trademark can still be used as restraint of trade vehicles. Specifically in the case of copyright, that is what has happened.
Copyright was originally designed to grant a monopoly for a SHORT time. This was to ENCOURAGE commerce. How does 200+ years of copyright possible now encourage anything? Let's just start copyrighting alphabet characters. It is essentially no different than one company copyrighting a stupid mouse and suing day care centers over its wall murals.