Help write a reply to Mark Helprin's call for infinite copyright
SF novelist Mark Helprin (author of "A Winter's Tale") has a silly little editorial in the NYT this weekend advocating copyright without end (though I don't see him volunteering to hunt town Shakespeare's descendants in order to pay them every time he quotes the Bard). It's not much of an essay -- as Avram Grumer points out, it mostly rehashes arguments Mark Twain advanced 101 years ago.Nevertheless, an editorial in the Times calls for a rebuttal, and that's why Larry Lessig has put up a wiki page for the collective authorship of a thoroughgoing rebuttal to Halprin's piece. There have been dozens of edits so far, and they've written a very good piece. You folks can go help make it better. Link
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