Copyright

I was not in class today but in reading over a classmates notes on copywrite I learned a lot more than I thought I would. I found it really interesting that the copywright law is 19 months older than the bill of rights! That shows how important it is in our nation's history. I also learned that it is a felony to share more than 10 copies or a value of over 2500. One issue in the copywright area is that of the public domain. Many argue that if an author is dead their work should go into the public domain, but the law states that the dead author's work is protected up to 75 years after the death. I feel that 75 years may be a bit extensive, but I do not think that an author's work should be released of its copywrite at the moment of their death. I think that maybe 15-20 years after death would be sufficient, 75 just seems unreasonable.