The Blog I Never Use

A story from Ed Felten (I found it through Making Light), says that certain online entities want to copyright numbers: dibbs on 0-9, and all combinations thereof.

I'm sick of copyright laws going wild. We give preferential treatment to companies by allowing them to renew copyrights much longer than actual people can, and we've allowed the laws to extend copyright benefits until long after the creator has died (in most cases, until long after his children have died) and cannot benefit from the proceeds. This is ludicrous, once the author is dead and his children have reached adulthood (not including children made from his frozen . . . assets, after he is dead, since they would likely be made for the very purpose of extending copyright by money- grubbing companies), the copyright should expire and the work should enter the public domain.

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