On 10/16/06, Maury Markowitz maury_markowitz@hotmail.com wrote:
In opposition to any effort this $100 million could possibly generate, the entire media industry is arrayed with a variety of well established lobby groups to ensure no such change takes place. It is resonable to suspect that the only changes to the law will be to increase the length of time for protections, while at the same time removing existing user rights.
I was not suggesting that any or all of the money we are talking about be used for that purpose; knowing a bit more of the specifics of this proposal, I doubt that this would happen (though it might be worth asking). But this attitude of utter resignation is pitiful. Humanity has fought greater evil than excessive copyright terms, and prevailed.