> Sometime, maybe 20 years from now, you are going to be able to say "I was there when everyone was figuring out copyrights and patents and stuff." I love your

> Sometime, maybe 20 years from now, you are going to be able to say "I was there when everyone was figuring out copyrights and patents and stuff." I love your optimism that this issue will be resolved in 20 years, but I don't share it. In 20 years patents issued today will barely be expiring and copyrights issued today will have ~90 years left, depending on the author's date of death. I find the conversations you mention interesting, but frustrating, since most deep philosophical questions regarding law are resolved not by the moralists or philosophers but by the lobbyists and the pre-lobbyist politicians.