Exactly, if the duration of these rights continue to escalate as they have with copyrights, performance rights and patents, then where will it end? How long wi

Exactly, if the duration of these rights continue to escalate as they have with copyrights, performance rights and patents, then where will it end? How long will it be before we're forced to pay to have an image or likeness of Plato or Aristotle on the cover of a book? The identities of these people are already owned by the public - hence the existing interest in them - and are thus already in the public domain. As I see it, that vested interests can corrupt the democratic process by having laws introduced that would remove information that's already in the public domain for their own benefit is, of itself, antidemocratic.