Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

Albert Henderson <noblestation[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote: >
> Performance licenses may carry a non-compete assurance

This is irrelevant to my point about the difference in price between the $70 purchace price the orchestral score of public domain "Peter and the Wolf" and the $600 RENTAL of the copyrighted "Peter and the Wolf" unless you can show that most of the difference in price pays for a worldwide non-compete assurance.

> Do you have a rational basis for defining "too long?"

Do you have a rational basis for defining "not long enough"?

Timothy Phillips
<hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> Received on Fri Aug 14 1998 - 15:19:07 GMT