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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 1558530" data-attributes="member: 7280"><p>I'm sorry, that's dumb. Every copyright extension ever made has infringed upon the public domain, the potential public domain of the moment and perpetual property rights of IP are a direct assault upon the public domain. Copyright is a GRANTED monopoly, without it you'd only be able to assert the most basic of material property rights upon your ideas. That grant is with the understanding that the ideas would eventually enrich the public, you can't enrich the public and hold their culture hostage at the same time. Let's make it clear, when you create something you're not not making a new thing...ever. You're building upon your background and culture, the public domain of thought that the current trend of legislation seems inclined to diminish. Basically, you're saying it doesn't matter because there's still some public domain without addressing the fact that the public domain is a process and that process is being slowly strangled. It's like saying that since there are endangered species in zoos that it should be ok to hunt them in the wild. I don't buy it. I don't think there's an argument there. Regardless of what the law is right now, it's wrong and counter to the public interests and even the interests of the entities that have lobbied for the laws in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>