RE: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

[Chris Crossen]

I don't know. As technology becomes cheaper and politicians become more
expensive, we may reach a tipping point where zombie houses prevail.

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On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:38 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

> I expect that in a few years, composers becoming famous in their life 
> time will get life support systems paid by their publishers, 
> preferably after they are brain dead but in a defensible way not 
> legally dead, in order to be able to extend copyrights.
> 
> Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some 
> parts of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of 
> copyright extensions.

LOL!!!

In the US the primary driver of copyright extension ad infinitum has been
Disney.  When they bump up towards the 7- year limit after disney's death
they will just buy enough votes in Congress to extent the copyright to 140
years.  It'll cost them a few million dollars but that's a lot cheaper in
the long run than running a zombie house.  ;-)
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