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Didn't vote for either of these extremes.
My opinion, in brief: copyright should be life + 20 years. (That way any minor children are covered when a parent dies.)
Provisions would have to be worked out for collective works and works-for-hire.
Trademarks should be short-term but extendable. Also they must be limited and specific. See: Droid. (Why Lucas should get paid every time someone buys a phone, I just don't get.)
Patents should be short-term and subject to challenge if not brought to market. (No "conceptual" patents that you can't produce. Wait for someone else to produce a similar product and then suing them for "infringement.")
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