->>  This, IMO, is one of the great failings of the new copyright
->>  law. I don't recall if it was 17 or 25 years before, now it's
->>  something like the life of the author plus 50 years. I have
->>  several excellent books, which are over 25 years old. They have
->>  not been republished since then. The author is dead. The
->>  publisher is, I beleive, out of business. I have no idea who to
->>  contact to get permission to do anything, nor do I have the
->>  economic reason to spend that much money to track someone down.
->>  For that matter, if the rights to those books were not specified
->>  in his will, I might have to track down every one of his heirs.
->>  If he had children who died, that might go down to his
->>  grandchildren.

->>  Preserving an author's rights should have it's limits. Producing
->>  a good work when you are young should not be a way for your
->>  grand children to live when you are long gone. Not at the cost
->>  of losing so much more. Everything created by any of us must
->>  eventually find it's way into the common store from which new
->>  works are created.

 TW>  I feel the same way. BUT unfortunatly we are in a Very
 TW>  small Minority. I see it as part of the "FREE RIDE"
 TW>  mentality. They want to get al lthe benifits without the
 TW>  Effort that their Father or Grandfather put in. Totaly
 TW>  Selfish and Selfcentered mentality but so goes the United
 TW>  States in particualr. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer

 Yep, so much for our diatribe for this month.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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