[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:jfnoph$p5c$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 24/01/2012 00:13, Walter Bright wrote:
> <snip>
>> Copyrights expire after 20 years. Renewable for another 20 years for a 
>> fee of $1000/year
>> per registered copyright.
>

I can't answer for Walter. But, for me:

> So your idea is to make it harder for people to keep their works 
> copyrighted?
>

God yes.

> Under your plan, what will happen to copyrighted works that have existed 
> for years?  Will they expire right away if they're 20 or more years old,

Hopefully.

> or remain under copyright for 20 years from now?
>
> And will existing rules (literature expires 70 years after the author's 
> death, music recordings expire 50 years after creation, etc.) still apply 
> in addition to this?
>

All of those copyright extension acts, such as Sunny Bozo's, should be 
retroactively nullified.