At 05:31 PM 1/31/2005 , -Bill wrote: >Just as an aside to all this conversation - I find it truly abhorrent >that copyright rests with the "author" for 50 - 70 years after that >person's death. Certainly a photographer/author/artist/etc. has a right >to remuneration for his/her work for so long as he's alive to receive >it, but why on earth do we have to pander to the "rights" >(non-existent, in my opinion) of the next one or two generations? If I >recall correctly (highly unlikely, considering the amber fluid I'm >currently imbibing to unwind after a nasty day), there have been NO >songs entering the public domain for about 4-5 years, and will be NO >songs entering until (I believe) 2008. Should photographs suffer the >same fate? Personally, I don't think so. In the U.S., the law (until >the late 70's, I believe) was that copyright was granted for a 35 year >period, renewable once. Assuming that most people don't create >copyright-worthy work until they're 15 or so, this would protect the >creator until age 85. Wasn't that enough? Why should descendants with >little or no talent, be guaranteed benefits from what their ancestors >created? Just a personal rant; sorry for going on so long. (Have you >ever tried Rebel Yell Bourbon...? It's great for changing 10-word >comments into doctoral dissertations. > >-Bill ... jan3105 from Lloyd Erlick Well, in my case I like it because I am most unlikely to leave anything else behind for the people I love, and their grandchildren, except maybe a worn out camera and enlarger. My portraits are mine, and after I'm gone I intend them to belong to whomever I damn well say. Descendants with no talent or not, I want them to receive the benefit. Bourbon has too much of a hangover for me ... regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: portrait@xxxxxxxxxxxx net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.