[Gllug] Some good news - copyright on sound recordings not to be extended

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Alain Williams wrote:

> > Does the parent who dies without holding a lucrative copyright receive 
> > some particular state monopoly to enable this?
> > 
> > If not why should someone else just because they own, and have benefited 
> > from, a copyright?
> 
> If I work hard, or am lucky, I can make lots of $$ and benefit from that.
> 
> By your logic: If I don't work then the state will give me lots of $$.

Not at all. My question was to expose the stupidity of a system that 
carries copyright through to a 3rd or 4th generation. Even the 2nd 
generation has not inherent right to income from their parents labours 
other than what their parents had already earned and bequethed to them in 
my view.

Jason
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