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Copyright law as it stands seems hopeless;

We have allowed "fictitious legal entities" to accumulate more rights and powers than mere individual citizens.  This is at the heart of most of our current problems, not just copyright law. The problem lies in putting the genie back in the bottle.

BTW, I was assigned Barchester Towers as required reading for 19th Century English History and fell in love with Trollope.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Jan 11th, 2010 at 06:05:36 PM EST
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It was "The Way We Live Now" that got me into Trollope, and I blush to admit this was one case of a video adaptation (BBC) leading me to the original book rather than the other way around.  Still pretty relevant, actually -- a few changes of name and the plot could be drawn from yesterday's and tomorrow's headlines.  

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Mon Jan 11th, 2010 at 06:54:38 PM EST
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That's an excellent novel, and should be essential reading on every economics course - and yes indeed, so very relevant now.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jan 11th, 2010 at 07:04:08 PM EST
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