To: Bush2000
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;What part of that from the US Constitution refers to writings and discoveries as property rather than means of promoting the sciences and the arts? What part of for limited times is so hard for people like you and Don Joe to understand? Limited times does not imply "lifetime of the creator plus x years." Yeah, it would still be limited if the law said that "copyrights now last as long as the US Government exists," but we both know that's not what the founders meant...
To: dheretic
What part of that from the US Constitution refers to writings and discoveries as property rather than means of promoting the sciences and the arts? What part of for limited times is so hard for people like you and Don Joe to understand? Limited times does not imply "lifetime of the creator plus x years." Yeah, it would still be limited if the law said that "copyrights now last as long as the US Government exists," but we both know that's not what the founders meant...
Property doesn't cease to be property if it's only held for a limited period of time, bonehead.
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