I will look in to the book... it is the fair thing to do. But in general think the system is ok. I am opppose to life time or eternal anythings (at least government wise). Those aspects need to be removed. Purhaps even time limits on thing would by just fine with me. But their should be protections for peoples work and yes even ideas.
Out of curiosity, when you say, "in general [...] the system is okay," are you including the DMCA in the okay part?
I'm not an absolutist on this issue -- I find it hard to let go of the idea of having some protections, some notion of IP, but also see the value of sharing. I think returning to more reasonable durations for copyright and undoing some of the recent, bizarre, big-media-power-grab restrictions on what you can do with your single, legally purchased copy of a work, would go a long way toward fixing the system.
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I'm not an absolutist on this issue -- I find it hard to let go of the idea of having some protections, some notion of IP, but also see the value of sharing. I think returning to more reasonable durations for copyright and undoing some of the recent, bizarre, big-media-power-grab restrictions on what you can do with your single, legally purchased copy of a work, would go a long way toward fixing the system.