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Again you cry about money. I'm not talking about suppressing a minority and slavery along with being an offense against human dignity is not economical. It is also absurd to refer to slave labor as free, if they were free they would not be slaves. The free north... You seem to have a problem understanding the word free, it's libre, liberty as opposed to free as in gratis. I keep pointing this out and you people keep ignoring it... the free north was far more prosperous overall than the south. A short copyright is not exploitation, it is a contract offered by the people as a whole to allow a person to do something they would not otherwise be able to do, have a monopoly over something. The monopoly is temporary and allows both sides to get something, in this case the author during the copyright term, everyone else afterward. Life+70 years isn't really temporary, it certainly isn't to anyone alive at the time something is copyrighted, they will never see the benefits of the deal. That may not mean much to you for someone who's 80 right now but the babies born today are being screwed out of the chance to build on the culture that spawned them to say nothing of the people who want to build on the culture that surrounds them right now. Long copyrights screw everyone but the copyright holder including the artists who's only shortcoming was not getting there first.
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