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Old 12-09-2009, 01:22 AM  
kane
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
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?
I can.

If you built a huge nice house and passed it down to your kids who passed it down to theirs should their be an expiration date as to when your family no longer owns it and anyone who wants to can move in and live there?

He created it. His estate should be able to hold the copyright on it for as long as they want.
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