Posted by Jock on October 07, 2007 at 22:22:25 from 64.27.5.49 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Copyright etc. posted by Laurence Monkhouse on October 07, 2007 at 17:05:03:
AR, when asked what his politics were said "Fishing"... I do think we ought to keep right off any other sort of politics.
The incident occurred when AR was being interrogated at Scotland Yard. I don't think that it can be taken as definitive proof that AR didn't have any interest in politics. The Politics of AR is potentially a rich subject of debate for TarBoard.
I support Peter H regarding his views about the duration of copyright and I quote part of his earlier post below.
As it happens, I would prefer 50 years - that seems long enough, and it is what the UK Copyright etc Act 1988 originally specified.
I may have skipped over some of the details, but I believe that the sequence of events that led to the change in the UK 1988 Act was roughly as follows.