Saturday, March 04, 2006

Copyrights never die!!!

Copyrighted material has been biven a twenty year extension in a recent bill that memorializes Congressman Sonny Bono of the Sonny ans Cher fame. As a result of the new bill his popular hit "I got you Babe" will be under copyright protection untill the year 2061!!!
I doubt whether such a lengthy period of intellectual property rights is needed to enhance the output of creative people. Mickey Mouse is already more than sixty years old but yet he enjoys world wide protection!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it makes no sense to me because no one either sings it or will remember that. I guess they just want to take legal actions to show power