Re: "note these are almost never the actual artists"
>I also hope you routinely work for free and don't expect to be paid for your efforts.... probably both Twain and Wilde would have given up writing if they didn't make money out of it.
Scientists and engineers make a healthy living out of 20 year patents, copyright should be the same i.e. 20 years or do you advocate the same degree of length for patents because at the current level of copyright extensions we may see the wheel come off patent by 2207.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
