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Politics : The Castle
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (975)1/17/2003 10:55:19 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
Patents expire after, I think, 17 years.

I think they can get extended.

Why should Elvis's heirs have more rights to profit from his work than Merck shareholders have to profit from their company's work developing a new drug, or a the family of the inventor of intermittent windshild wipers should have to profit from his invention?

I think the law has evolved differently because of the fundamental differences in the creative process. But your suggest of 25 years is clearly (to me, at least) not sufficient. Should the living Beatles not still have the right to control use of their creative efforts (that, of course, presumes they hadn't sold them to Michael Jackson, which they did).

Once upon a time I studied some of this law, but today I know next to nothing about it...
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