Andrew Bailey wrote: > > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Andrew Bailey <andrew at networkharmoni.com.au> writes: > > > > > >>Changing copyright laws to reduce the period in which a work is > >>protected will, in the short term, only advantage publishers. > > > > > > And readers, the general public. It will also advance *our* interests > > a lot. > > Maybe, maybe not. You may get cheaper books earlier. You may also find a > lot of people cashing in publishing fan fiction in a known universe, > something that you have said you dislike. > > Sure there are good derivative works, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern > are Dead, but not everyone is Stoppard. > I think that non-Stoppard quality usage of other people's work will simply get ignored. The way it is today.