Hiya nanook & thanks for your kind comments!
Here's one more related link well worth checking; Jack had posted it on Zeropaid but I haven't seen anybody posting it here:
Why Copyright Laws Hurt Culture
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from the above Wired story:
American copyright laws have gotten so out of hand that they are causing the death of culture and the loss of the world's intellectual history, according to Stanford technology law professor Lawrence Lessig.
Copyright has bloated from providing 14 years of protection a century ago to 70 years beyond the creator's death now, he said, and has become a tool of large corporations eager to indefinitely prolong their control of a market. Irving Berlin's songs, for example, will not go off copyright for 140 years, he said.
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