> Well we need to change copyright then. We absolutely do. I'm for much shorter terms, e.g. 14 years, the original term in the US. But I would be willing to c

> Well we need to change copyright then. We absolutely do. I'm for much shorter terms, e.g. 14 years, the original term in the US. But I would be willing to correct for changes in life expectancy since 1790. I haven't run the math, but I suspect it would be 20-25 years, discounting infant mortality. This is a far more sensible figure than "authors death + any ridiculous number". (I do sell books I wrote with my copyright, so I'm not completely unaware of the needs of authors.) That said, I do want the same copyright protections for the wimpy kid and Dan Brown, because the alternative--differentiating copyrightable material or charging to make it--is am undesirable alternative to shorter terms. > I should be able to browse such documents from the same bed I'm lying in now writing these words, not book a plane to fly across country because librarians are justifiably paranoid about some asshole copyright lawyers. Amen to that.