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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Greg Goss sent the following on 10/29/2009 3:33 AM:   
   > Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In terms of the bigger picture, it never ceases to amaze me when people   
   >> fail to see the damaging effects of the disincentives that they're so   
   >> willing to promote.  And it's not just as it relates to creative types,   
   >> but to the best of the best in anything.  Few people will make an effort   
   >> to stand out and produce great things if the end result is that a horde   
   >> of ingrates steal their output or decide, by judicial thuggery, to tell   
   >> them how much their efforts are worth in a "fair" society.  It's   
   >> parasitism at its worst.   
   >   
   > I don't think that what happens a century from now to the title of a   
   > work has much influence on the creator of that work.   
      
   Not everyone in this thread is agreeing with you or me when it comes to   
   what is a "reasonable" period of time.  There is certainly no consensus   
   on your 100 years.  And beyond that, it gets back to the fact that, in   
   my vision of a fair world, the courts would not be deciding what is   
   "reasonable," either.  Instead, the free market would.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
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