Re: Intellectual Property II

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:57 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11969361.htm
> (Governments can seize private land, high court rules)

There are certain extreme situations where a Government can *seize*
(which is an extreme and unexpected case, not the result of a quite
known and expected pre-defined time-limit).

Copyright is a monopoly over the distribution of a work in order to
provide an economic advantage to the artist.

Copyright is temporary because the good of the society can not be held
hostage to the good of "one" (and usually only one) single person for an
indefinite amount of time.

Rui

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