rhandir: I think the thing that's missed in arguments for copyright surviving the death of the author is that it's a "think of the poor little children!" argument for limiting the rights of the public at large.
The business of writing is, like all business, risky. You can and almost certainly will fail, like most small businesses. This is one of the good things about the way American capitalism works: it's easy for people to try new ideas and succeed or fail so we can all keep coming up with new things to try. It's the scientific method writ large.
Do you know more about where or when that speech this summer was? I've tried looking for it, but it's pretty impossible to pick a set of keywords to narrow it down.
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