[OldDeckHand]

"Errr... no, the price of a song ought to be whatever the owner of said song wants to charge and the market can decide if said price has value to the consumers. "

I agree completely. You might be surprised how many on this very board don't.

[a fool in paradise]

They can charge whatever they want. Companies buying legislators to keep renewing copyrights every 26 years is not law. It is lobbying that deprives the marketplace.

Hollywood has been kept solvent selling America 50 year old product that should be in the public domain by now (as was formerly the case under the law).

Hollywood would be more responsive to the market when they try to push Left wing antiwar propaganda as infotainment. But they reap billions off of works produced by dead people (many of whom were employed under “work for hire” contracts and do not receive any further payments).

The author of the article somehow thinks that the work of scientists and inventors should NOT be likewise protected or allowed to be sold for whatever price the market will bear.