RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Actually Star Wars is an argument for shorter terms.

If Lucas were facing a shorter term on his creation,
he might've finished the $(!@ series by now!

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Roberts [mailto:maroberts@dial.pipex.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:28 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
> 
> 
> someone somewhere wrote:
> 
> > just ask yourself, how many movies older than 15 years do 
> you watch, 
> > there may be some, but the select few that still make some 
> money out 
> > of it, can't possibly justify such a lenghty term...
> >
> Two Words: Star Wars (1979 IIRC)
> 
> Whether there is commercial value at the end of the selected 
> copyright 
> period should be irrelevant, though. The question surely 
> should be what 
> period of monopoly is regarded as sufficient to provide 
> encouragement to 
> the author to produce the works in question. I believe that period 
> should lie somewhere between 10 and 25 years.
> 
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