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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Harry, this is what drives me up the wall about intellectual property. On one hand, it's 20 years and that's all. On the other hand, it's life + whenever (50, 70, 95, or what the next Mickety Mouse preservation act calls for.) It's not just to treat IP so differently....
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Not to neglect that I too consider current copyright far too long. Especially in a world turning so fast as ours today. And the current copyright length is likely the result of lobby of people interesting in long (and yes disney sure would be interested in permanent) copyrights is far stronger than any possible lobby of people interested in a shorter copyright length.
However the rights a patent grands you are extremely more far reaching than the rights a copyright grands you. So its actually quite fair that patents are shorter than copyright.