[IP] Extending copyright to last forever?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: May 20, 2007 10:30:48 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: Extending copyright to last forever?


Dave,

Must read -- but take your blood pressure medication first -- is a
NYT op-ed from Mark Helprin (a fellow at the Claremont Institute)
who proposes Congress extend copyright "as far as it can throw"
(ideally he says extending it forever if the pesky Constitution
didn't get in the way).

I don't know if he's really serious or merely some sort of agent
provocateur trying to whip people into a frenzy, but he's certainly
useful as a reminder that at least ostensibly there are people who
do have such views, however ridiculous they may seem to most of us.
I'm assuming that the IP readership tends not to go along with the
"forever copyright" concept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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