The People Who Owned the Bible - a story
The People Who Owned the Bible is an interesting story about what happens when copy right keeps being extended ad infinitum. I can understand why copyright exists. I can see the argument for a reasonable length of copyright (maybe 20 years or so), but why should copyright be infinite? I really like Thomas Babington Macaulay’s speech on the subject of the extension of copyright. It seems to me to do a masterful job of highlighting both the importance of copyright and the need for its limitation.