Digital BW, The Print

Truman Prevatt writes:

> I read the other day in the Washington Post that because of the massive
> number of copyrights being filed and the issues associated with the 
> digital music (which an appellate court has just made more muddy) that
> congress is going to take another look at the copyright laws this 
> session. In the article some legal "scholars" were interviewed to say 
> that congress went overboard to the point that current law is almost 
> unenforceable and they would most likely back track in a new law. Stay
> tuned.

Congress went overboard long ago.  Current copyright protection is
extremely restrictive and excessive.  Something more like patent and
trademark protection might be better, with a much shorter term for
copyright.  Nobody needs copyright protection after he is dead, for
example.