lemonflavoured
Now, all that being said, my personal opinion is fuck the US legal system and fuck copyright.
Some form of copyright has to exist, and - as angrily explained to me by authors - it needs to extend somewhat beyond the life of the author. I'm certainly never going to agree with it being indefinite though.
I'm amazed that it's taken this long for a high profile lawsuit about it.
It might have changed, but at one point you could only sell pre-sliced bread in 400g or multiples of that.
"Britain is one of the oldest democracies"
Is it?
We didn't have full and equal universal suffrage until 1924. Even ignoring that, elections before about 1832 were barely democratic in a lot of places.
I wouldn't put it past him to stand in the by election just to spite the Tories
Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.
Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, film at 11.
If they actually do this then a list of people watching will be hacked within days and will quite strongly backfire on MPs...
He's the one who suggested it, so I'd assume he's in favour, although I suppose you never can tell with this government.
"Fare thee well, gone away / there's nothing left to say / 'cept to say adieu to your eyes as blue / as the water in the bay"
Authors need to be able to make a living from writing, unless you want far less books to be written. And there is some logic in allowing them to leave some sort of rights to their family, even if it's only for like 10 years.