… which will, of course, be completely ignored.

I wrote a little post last year about the utter insanity of our current copyright system. Now a doctoral candidate at Cambridge has done some research on the optimal term for copyrights. His conclusion: 14 years.

14 years, by the way, was exactly the duration of protection offered under the Copyright Act of 1790. So… we got it right the first time, and 217 years of further government meddling (with plenty of help from lobbyists) have only served to completely fuck things up. I, for one, am SHOCKED.