A Parable about Intellectual Property

This is the most coherent analysis of the current farcical intellectual property laws I have yet read.

It was time for another Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension to keep Disney’s star property out of the public domain. Somebody’s nephew had a bright idea. Instead of telling Congress to add the standard twenty years to the length of copyright, why not go for the big time? Extend copyright by 500 years.

Read the rest at it’s all one thing: The People Who Owned the Bible – a story. Thanks to Boing-boing via Jenny

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