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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 5100777" data-attributes="member: 12760">Well, whether copyright or TM should be limited to 10 or 20 years (which I agree is on the short side for some things, though not all), I do think that the way that it keeps getting extended in the U.S. is abusive. Whether a creative commons license in TM is possible, the larger concept of creative commons gives a good alternative to the kinds of burdensomely exclusive uses of copyright (leave TM out of it for the moment), that make life difficult for people who want to utilize IP under fair use.To give but one example: In a book I edited a couple of years ago, one of the authors had inserted a line -- a single line -- from a hymn, and I had to remove it because we realized too late in the process that we hadn't secured copyright permission, and at that point it was easier to change the article than get the permission if we were to stay on schedule. For one line in a hymn, which ought to be protected under fair use, that's ridiculous.</blockquote>