December 13th 2007 02:17 pm
You’re moving in the right direction
SCENE: The Whatever, during a copyright discussion.
Scalzi: what people should be focusing on is the essentially ridiculous current length of copyright.
Commenter: I think that this is absolutely correct. Life plus seventy years is pretty ridiculous. Life plus twenty is probably more reasonable.
Cut to me, here.
Me: “Live plus twenty is probably more reasonable”? I guess if you’re more limp than a properly cooked noodle. It is, truthfully, a more reasonable stance, but it’s still pretty far beyond truly reasonable.
How about twenty? No life plus, just 20 years of copyright.
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