Comment Copyright laws are theft of culture. (Score 4, Insightful) 290
Copyrights are granted as a contract between society and the creator. Society grants protection for an artist's work for a brief time, in return society becomes the benefactor of these works once copyrights elapse. Failure to release works to public domain and instituting new copyright laws to lengthen copyright duration violate this contract, in effect theft of culture.
Copyrights - 7 years.
Patents - 10 years.
Anything more is stealing your culture.