<<< Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think things are out of whack too. I just don't think my heirs should have to lose the value of my work to the public domain. The public can bloody well pay to use my work! >>> Emily Are you related to the Disney family by any chance? ;o) David makes a good point: the artist gets compensated for his life and (at 25y after) so do his kids. But what of my Royalties for "Greensleeves" ... a distant ancestor wrote it many centuries ago and people play it all the time with impunity. But why should someone remain fat not just just through an accident of birth but a chain of them going back tens of generations? I thought that was why we were fighting the class-based society (there are close parallels). As a basic human right - copyright is BS. It simply did not exist in ancient times. Patents did not exist in ancient times (reputations were more important then ??? maybe. Both are relatively recent concepts (hundreds rather than thousands of years). Both are irrelavent in anything but a capitalist society! B0b
