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

[David Kastrup]

"Chris Crossen" <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:38 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>> Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some 
>>> parts of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of 
>>> copyright extensions.
>>
>> 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.  ;-)
>
> I don't know. As technology becomes cheaper and politicians become
> more expensive, we may reach a tipping point where zombie houses
> prevail.

You could combine both.  The UK already has a House of Lords.

-- 
David Kastrup