Re: Re: will everyone concerned about copyright please read this

I'll answer the comparison to patent (I know you're taking the
opposite as well) with one point. If an author creates a world and
characters, he or she may still be writing in that world 20 years
later. He or she may be setting up gaming rights or movie rights near
the end of that time period, based on the audience built over decades
of writing in it. He or she may be have translations that are a decade
or less old. Basically, you can't compare it to patent, simply because
writers often continue to work in the created world, with the same or
connected characters, etc. They also have a wide range of creative
rights that may well be associated with the initial book rights but
that come much later.

Brenna

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Dan Poynter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> WHY SHOULD BOOK COPYRIGHTS EXPIRE?
>
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