If you've not managed to recover a sufficient wage for your work in 1972 from 46 years of publicly enforced monopoly then I think the public should have a right to cease offering you that monopoly. If you have, then why do you need this protection?
20 years at most IMO, anything longer damages cultural progress.
Copyright is nothing like a natural right, so it's not really the EFF's place to make a convincing argument against it, more the proponents should be convincing the public to extend this favour.
20 years at most IMO, anything longer damages cultural progress.
Copyright is nothing like a natural right, so it's not really the EFF's place to make a convincing argument against it, more the proponents should be convincing the public to extend this favour.