->  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.

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