Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

--- On Fri, 5/16/08, David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

> From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
> Subject: Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain
> To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 6:52 AM
> >> 70 plus years after
> >> the death of he who did create it is ridiculously
> >> excessive. Ten years would be reasonable.
> >
> > How ridiculously arbitrary; and all on done on the
> basis of a snap moral 
> > judgment -- where is the 'greater need' that
> justifies the abrogation of 
> > individual rights?
> 
> Calm down a little. I'm not saying 70 years is worse
> than 10 years -- but 
> can you really argue it is less arbitrary?

Absolutely! Bottom line case, we are talking about depriving people of the 
ability to feed and care for their children (or designated heirs); sooner is 
more egregious than later, relative to the confiscation of property, whether 
before or after death. 

Don