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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   SFTVratings sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:11 PM:   
   > On Oct 26, 5:09 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> We probably both already know that it has nothing to do with benefiting   
   >> society and everything to do with benefiting the selfish and   
   >> self-serving SFTV_troys and Frank Franks of the world.   
   >   
   >   
   > I don't get to sit on my fat ass and collect money off works I created   
   > 40 years ago.   
      
   Sucks to not be creative, eh?   
      
   > Neither should you.   
      
   Why not?   
      
   > There should be a time limit.  The   
   > original 1790 act was for 14 years + possible renewal for another 14   
   > years.  That's MORE than enough time for a novelist to earn money off   
   > his creation.   
      
   So you would presume to tell a novelist how much money he should be   
   allowed to make off of his work?  Are you also a fan of planned   
   economies, when it comes right down to it?   
      
   > After that point, like Huckleberry Finn, A Tale of Two Cities,   
   > Wuthering Heights, and other classics, the novels should fall into   
   > public domain for the enrichment of all human being.   
      
   Anyone who wants "enrichment" can get it for the price of admission.  Or   
   *borrow* it from the library.   
      
   > The needs of the   
   > 6,000,000,000 outweigh the need of the 1 writer.   
      
   I'm pretty sure that you're confusing "wants" and "needs" here.   
      
   > Twenty-eight years   
   > is long enough.   
      
   Why?  Because you say so?   
      
   --   
   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
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