I'm trying to shut myself up and just lurk, but I thought I would break my rule--just this once, of course--to reply to Dennis Karjala, who said about extending the term to life+70:
> This argument would have validity, at best, only to purely
> prospective extensions.
You're absolutely right. I was thinking prospectively only, which is not all that the proposal would accomplish.
> However, the real loss to the public results from works that
> will NOT be created at all in the future, because the underlying works
> on which they would have been based are so tied up in copyright knots
An excellent point that I also had not been thinking of. Thank you.
Trotter Hardy
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Trotter Hardy / William & Mary / (804) 221-3826 Received on Sat Apr 20 1996 - 20:06:01 GMT
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