Re: Knight and Public Domain

[Bob Tess <bobtess@dinoart.com>]

There will be a revolution - the day the Rockefellers, Gates, and  
other billionaires of the world are only allowed to pass their  
property on to their descendants for 75 years after their death and  
then it gets distributed to the public - then artists' property  
rights will finally be equal.

Tess
On May 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> Danvarner@aol.com writes:
> > In a message dated 5/14/2008 6:51:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > mike@indexdata.com writes:
> >
> > > Eh?  Where does the date 2023 come from?  What happened to
> > > everything being out of copyright after 75 years?
> >
> > I used 70 years after Knight's death in 1953. I believe that's
> > correct here in the US.
>
> Darn it.  Someone should have killed him in 1937.
>
> Seriously, copyright law has got totally out of control.  There's a
> revolution coming, folks.
>
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