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Originally Posted by kreeper_6  Basically, everybody has the right to a work...eventually. You can't own ideas or even inventions...you just have the right to use it exclusively for a time period that law dictates.
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Copyright is being abused. The Sonny Bono act was basically Disney paying for legislation so they could prevent their copyright from lapsing. It would have been better if they just limited it to Disney products! As it's happened, copyright is extended on all kinds of crap with a massively inefficient system of trying to obtain copyright clearance for something. Lawyers get fat, that's about it. Copyright should not be looked at from a regulatory perspective. It should be looked at from a simplified licensing/marketplace perspective.