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Originally Posted by kennyc
And therein lies the major issue with the current law I think. It should be for the creator of the work, not some corporation or endless descendants....
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Steve, Kennyc, here is the reality. All democratic forms of government are for sale, directly or indirectly. (directly is bribery, indirectly is providing load of campaign funds to help get a candidate elected that will fully support your views.) So....
Who provided for the public's side on copyright? Nobody. So those corporations that will benefit economically from longer copyright keep influencing the governments (see above), with no organized resistance. What you are getting is disorganized resistance (piracy). The corporations have been stealing from the public (by lengthening copyright terms), so they have lost most moral "high ground". The result is more and more totalitarian laws in order to "protect" copyright. It's actually to protect corporate profits. It's not to encourage artistic creation, it's to maintain former art as a perpetual property. And that is completely against the concept of copyright in the first place....