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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Greg Goss sent the following on 10/29/2009 3:35 AM:   
   >> Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> There's obviously a set of "monopoly" talking points circulating on the   
   >>> pro-piracy networks.   
   >>   
   >> Why would we be interested in the piracy networks?  I'm advocating for   
   >> a forty-year copyright, and I've already seen all the TOS shows.   
   >   
   >Forty years definitely qualifies as a disincentive as I described the   
   >concept in another post.  So when you referred to "a century" in that   
   >post, were you being disingenuous, or have you changed your mind?   
      
   The current law specifies about a century.  That's too long.  My   
   preference is the old rule of 25 years, renewable to 40, with positive   
   action needed to obtain protection.   
      
   There's no conflict between "forty is good" and "century is bad".   
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   apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants   
   a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.   
      
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