Leosghost - 7:58 pm on Dec 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

The books were still in copyright in France ..( where incidentally some of them were also scanned ) and were / are french works in the main ..by in the main french authors ..
By your tortuous and for some reason francophobic logic France could decide that copyright in software should only exist for 10 years or even abolish it and then I ( resident in France ) could just copy ad infinitum photshopcs4 or Xp .( or any other software ..especially those developed in the USA .and make them available as download from my sites ..with ads along side to pay my bandwidth bills ..

My primary business is still the creation of original artworks and sculpures ( thats right creation ) according to your previous rants in this thread You or anyone else should be able to copy them and commercialise the copies with out paying me anything and without my approval ..( and that upon my death my son should not have any rights over those works ..copyright or otherwise ) ..So I'd be working for what ..I would pass on what ..Maybe you think he should give up the house too when his parents pass on ..and GORG could sell it ..for the "common good of humanity as they try to make out is their motive" ..with ads on of course ..or they could just steal it because he might not be in it at the time and to them it looked "abandoned" ..

And your justification ..because your ancestors ..not you personally ( created some things ..a long time ago that you are OK about having copied ) ..firstly I suspect that an architects work comes under work for hire ( and thus isn't protected )..and the argument that teachers descendants could somehow give permission to the students of those teachers the "permission" to speak or think or base their own works on what they were taught is ludicrous ..

Only those who dont earn their crust by actually creating unique work could think that way ..thankfully such total selfishness is in the minority ..and isn't backed by law ..otherwise it would be OK to copy anything that comes out of Hollywood , Stephen King and Disney ..not to mention Microsoft , Adobe and GORG..GORGs own compulsive use of patents says that they certainly see creativity needs protection ( when it suits them ) ..It is simple ..if it isnt yours ..don't copy it ..dont steal it ..and dont think that you have the right to give anyone else the right to copy it either ..

See ..easy ..n'est-ce pas :)