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Mine, All Mine: Novelist Calls for Infinite Copyright
As Avram Grumer points out, Mark Twain made a similar argument over a century ago. And Lawrence Lessig has set up a wiki page for rebuttals to Helprin's argument, although that's going to need some work. "'Perpetual' copyright is just absurd," runs one objection. "Does Helprin really think that Shakespeare's 'descendants' still 'deserved' royalties for his writings today in some inalienable sense? What if a descendant of Martin Luther King Jr sued to enjoin all publication of his 'I have a dream' speech?" Apparently, the person who wrote that has never heard of Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. vs. CBS, which upheld the right of King's descendants to charge licensing fees for any redistribution of any significant portion or the entirety of that speech. Oops! Email This Post |
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