re: #122 SanFranciscoZionist

If I build a house, it is ridiculous for me to expect it to belong to me and my heirs for more than sixty years?

Apparently, the founders didn’t choose to grant perpetual rights to words and ideas.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution:

(The Congress shall have the power) To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;