[acidzebra]

Originally Posted by HarryT

This discussion, Lauzon, has been primarily about current books by living authors. Dragging up copyright term issues is obscuring the issue to no good purpose.

I would say it is directly relevant - like I said, the system which governs, controls, and disseminates content is broken. This system governs the works of the dead and the living, and of those to come.

This was posted earlier:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.

And then you said:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Precisely, Paul. Words of wisdom indeed.

I did wonder at the time why you agreed with those words - as they say in a rather nice way "the new copyright system sucks and people won't take it, and as a result living authors will be hurt".