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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I'm not advocating undoing current public domain works. That genie is out of the bottle and impossible to undo. I'm advocating a change to current copyright law.
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The point is if you had had your way in the past, the effect would have been stagnation. If patents had been eternal, we'd be lucky to have a useable steam engine now. There is no reason to think that there would be any less stagnation if copyright were now made eternal. What you are advocating is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Of course the story of the Goose that Layed the Golden Egg would have vanished into copyright limbo if copyright had been eternal.
I'm against eternal copyright for the same reason I'm against book burning. Eternal copyright is the biggest bonfire of them all.