One Reason Why Disney and Microsoft are Evil:
“The whole purpose of the clause in the Constitution that says that Congress’s power is to “promote the Progress of Science” is to induce a spread of new learning. If the government is going to be handing out monopolies to authors and inventors, and expending significant state resources to enforce their monopolies, then a bit of learning, 7 or 14 years later, is not a terrible price to pay.”, Lawrence Lessig.
By training, I’m a writer. There was actually a point where I made a living writing. A lousy living, but I paid rent. So, trust me, I believe in copyright. But there’s just no reason that copyright — which in most media is acquired by a corporation and not even owned by the original creator — should last for over a century. And there’s lots of good reasons it shouldn’t.