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Originally Posted by GatorB
While I'm a big supporter and defender of copyright to be hoenest today's copyright laws are fucked up and are to broad themselves and need to be pared down. Can anyone actually defend the fact that a song written by Irving Berlin in 1925 is protected until 2059?
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If Irving Berlin made some money in 1925, didn't spend it, passed it down to his heir, who didn't spend it, and it kept passing down from heir to heir unspent... at what point should that money be taken away from whatever extended heir now owns it, so it can be given out for free to anyone and everyone?
(Spare us all the political taxation replies, it's a comparative example.)