Fw: offlist Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

And then you decided to put it onlist after all... so I hereby forward my 
offlist response, too... but after that let's stop it, please!

> > Well, I think most artists would be very surprised (and thrilled) to find
> > out "large fortunes" have anything to do w/ it;
>
> Yes, of course that's not usually the case...
>
> > and NOT thrilled to know this is "social policy", rather than "property
> > rights"...
>
> The question to what extent property rights should be heritable is social
> policy. I was veering off into first principles. :-)