posthumous copyright extensions
has anyone found out where the dead are banking their cheques? How do they get them?
Or are the corporations banking them themselves and pocketing the money?
And, copyright is supposed to return the investment of time and energy to the people doing the work, so they can continue producing it. Or at least according to the precise of copyright the US Constitution proffers. As far as I know, only Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote something from beyond the grave: there might6 be a few others like Cleopatra and the like, but they've all "produced" works well beyond their lifetime thus are not covered by copyright as such. Does Disney have a medium on staff to receive film scripts from Walt Disney himself?
I think Jaron Lanier's taking himself far too seriously.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
