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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Invid Fan wrote:   
   > In article , steve march    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Anim8rFSK"  wrote in message   
   >> news:ANIM8Rfsk-116713.19235027102009@news.dc1.easynews.com...   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>>>> I don't see how wanting to set a reasonable time limit on copyright is   
   >>>>> selfish, self serving and stealing.   
   >>>> Shouldn't the creator be the one to decide what is a reasonable time   
   >>>> limit?   
   >>> A friend of mine thinks ownership rights should end when you die.  I   
   >>> asked him why Stephen King's family should have lost his rights if that   
   >>> idiot in the van had killed him, and if you weren't just inviting people   
   >>> to kill rights holders.  He didn't have any good answers.   
   >> I would assume the same thing that prevents beneficiaries of every life   
   >> insurance policies from whacking those policyholders. Yet we still have life   
   >> insurance.   
   >>   
   > So if King were murdered his family would get to keep his rights, where   
   > as if he died a natural death they wouldn't. Hmm....   
   >   
   Ladies, Gentlemen and Otherbeings, Exhibit #1 for why copyright doesn't   
   end upon the death of the creator.   
      
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