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  • Economist's Defense Of Perpetual Copyright: It's Best To Just Ignore The Economics

    Pirate Captain Jim ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 01:39pm

    Corporations are people, too...

    It's not my unborn great, great (...) grandchildren who Liebowitz is trying to protect, it's the corporation -- the movie studio or record label or publishing house. Or maybe it's The Captain Jim Estate, Inc., established by my ex-wife's legal team.

    If somebody is going to profit from my work after I die, it had better be the people who outlawyered me while I was alive, not some random librarian or teenage mashup artist on YouTube. Let's sue those lawbreaking bastards for everything they're worth.

  • Economist's Defense Of Perpetual Copyright: It's Best To Just Ignore The Economics

    Pirate Captain Jim ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 11:26am

    Re: Rereading

    That's why ebooks are in turmoil right now. Authors and publishers have an unprecedented opportunity to stifle the future of the royalty-free used book market by making sure it doesn't get to exist in the electronic space.