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Re:Ideas to monetize new artifical intelligence by rms on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @01:48AM (#79681)
At least patents are only 20 years, copyright is forever.
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Re:Ideas to monetize new artifical intelligence by marcus on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @04:57AM (#79707)
Copyright isn't forever. It originally expired 17 years after the death of the author. Unfortunately Disney pushed for extension of copyrights every time their key copyrights (Micky mouse & friends) were about to expire and have been able to push extending them quite unreasonably.
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Re:Ideas to monetize new artifical intelligence by rms on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @04:42PM (#79855)
Right, Disney has effectively made copyright forever by making it last more than a lifetime.
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