leebase said:
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"There is no limit to fiction, no limit to creativity."
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I would disagree. That seems a very loose statement.
A vote against Perpetual Copyright from me!
Possibly partly due to influence from the Spider Robinson short story "Melancholy Elephants".
Premise:
Perpetual Copyright has been established. *New* works are appearing less and less often. Why? because so many of the purportedly "new" works being submitted for copyright are found to be derivative of existing copyrighted works, and fail of copyright permission. (I seem to remember, but may be wrong, that the heroine's husband composed a wonderful new piece of music, only to discover it recreated a lullaby he heard when he was an infant.)
Writers, musicians, visual artists are losing incentive to create, because IN FACT, there are not an *infinite* number of usable pleasing permutations available.