And if winged monkeys flew out of my [your choice of orifice here] and froze my body into a state of suspended animation, I suppose the copyright on my works would last forever, or at least until the publisher forget to pay the electricity bill for my freezer. Come on, why don't we stop playing with wildly implausible scenarios? Besides, I imagine the cost of keeping your hypothetical author alive would far outweigh the present value of some potential revenue stream that won't be realized for 70 years (since if the author died today, the revenue stream would still last 70 years from today).
kwg
Kevin W. Grierson
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>>> pepebuho[_at_]pananet.com 11/19/03 11:10AM >>>
I have been following this and now I get some real nasty questions.
Take into consideration the case of the Florida woman that is not
being allowed to die.
How would it play if an author creates a widely successful work, very
succeptible to be copied and he gets into a disabilitating accident and
a coma.
Now by fair or foul methods, his publisher/producer obtains guardianship
and simply decides to keep the author alive for as long as medically
possible (and we know it can be a very long time...) just to keep the
copyright "alive" for as long as it might be possible.
What would the meaning of Life+75 or Life+50 be now?
J. Perez
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:21:29 -0500
Message-ID: <redirect-1660501[_at_]cni.org>
From: "Robert F. Bodi" <lawlists[_at_]bodi.com>
References: <list-1659446[_at_]cni.org>
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Golan v. Ashcroft
>
> I am no lawyer, but life has no definite end, no definite definition that
> can stand the test of likely "as to time certain" based on current and
> emerging capabilities in life science. What happens when someone lives
> 400 years? Does that person's copyrights get +70 more in monopoly
> interest, next after that will be someone who lives 2000 years and so on?
Most legal definitions of life state that death occurs on the cessation of brain activity, or the heart stops beating. These definitions are scientifically verifiable, and thus are CERTAIN. Science does, indeed, help us find a legal definition of death. Any non-lawyer with half a brain can get it. End of story.
-Bodi
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