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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Dr Nancy's Sweetie wrote:   
   > Somebody wrote, of copyrights:   
   >> The current 105 year span (likely to be expanded again by Disney   
   >> lobbying) is ridiculous.   
      
   That was SFTV_troy.   
      
   > Some who object to copyrights are, quite likely, trying to get   
   > something for free which they should pay for.  Artists have to eat,   
   > and while maybe in some perfect world we could do without any form of   
   > patent or copyright protection, we don't live in that perfect world.   
      
   We do, however, live in a world where we can do without any form of   
   patent or copyright protectionism.   
      
   We got on without copyright for tens of thousands of years, as a matter   
   of fact. Copyright is a recent invention.   
      
   Check out that Techdirt blog sometime. This sort of thing is discussed   
   regularly there.   
      
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