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Copyright infinito?

El día de ayer, el New York Times publicó un artículo escrito por Mark Helprin que se titula “A great idea lives forever. Shouldn’t its copyright?”. En este artículo el autor estima que el derecho de autor debiera ser perpetuo igual que el derecho de propiedad sobre cualquier bien mueble o inmueble, es decir, equipara los derechos sobre bienes inmateriales con aquellos correspondientes a los materiales, o sea, como comparar peras con manzanas.

Las reacciones no se han hecho esperar y ya se ha montado un wiki para responder al autor. Sin duda se exponen puntos de vista y opiniones muy interesantes de porqué el copyright no debe ser perpetuo pero además hay una parte en especial que me dio demasiada risa. Es una carta solicitándole a Helprin el pago de regalías como a continuación transcribo:

Dear Mr Helprin,
In light of a rumored bill before Congress to retroactively extend the limited copyright in the US to 25000 years after the death of the author (or the destruction of the last copy of the work, whichever comes last), we are investigating several potential copyright infringements in your last op-ed entitled “A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?”.
Descendants of James Madison request to be compensated for any citation, partial or full, of any of his works. Descendants of Hammurabi (currently estimated at about 127 million) claim copyright on any western law text and discussion thereof, as they are all derivative works of Hammurabi’s Code of Law. Finally, there have been claims by descendants of Evander, son of the Sybil, that all Roman letters fall under their copyright, and that therefore any text using them needs to pay them a fair share of proceeds.
Preliminary calculations put the projected statutory infringement fines at 4.2 trillion dollars. This number may change as more claimants come forward. As it is unknown how much more the US Congress is going to extend copyrights, we suggest to settle sooner rather than later.
Sincerely,

Howard Howe, Dewey, Chetham & Howe, LLP

Como podrán ver el texto de la carta no es más que una burla al autor del artículo pero si su idea fuera hecha realidad, estaría en serios problemas económicos.

2 Responses to “Copyright infinito?”

  1. Es que hay gente que definitivamente tiene una mentalidad de hace 100 años… (o más)

  2. Copyright infinito?…

    Una cucharada de su propia medicina al Sr. Mark Helprin y sus declaraciones acerca del copyright….

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