Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     Well, which is why I'm not advocating eradicating copyright, but 
> merely limiting it. How many movies or pieces of software do you know of 
> that took over 20 years to produce a profit?

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/13/man-claims-he-got-lost-first/

There's another example. You don't want copyright so short that it's cheaper 
to just outwait it than to pay the copyright.

This happened with patents on loading coils and fiber optics, both of which 
waited 20 years to get incorporated into the phone systems, for example.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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