>Jsut because I put out the effort and skill to acquire a piece of >real estate doesn't mean that 70 years after I die it should revert >to public domain. Emily Columbus "discovered" America ... should Europe be paid royalties for ever more??? Copyright is not a right - it is something society allows. Perchaps we should have permanent patent too - meal ticket for life for anyone who can prove their ancestor helped develop any of the things most of us take for granted! Grrr.
