US Constitution
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Intellectual Property should not be allowed to be transferred.
Once a person relinquishes their rights to their intellectual property, that property should be free for public use.
"(2) Term.— Subject to the payment of fees under this title, such grant shall be for a term beginning on the date on which the patent issues and ending 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, if the application contains a specific reference to an earlier filed application or applications under section 120, 121, or 365 (c), from the date on which the earliest such application was filed."
"The law automatically protects a work that is created and fixed in a tangible medium of expression ... from the moment of its creation and gives it a term lasting for the author’s life plus an additional 70
years (or more depending on when the copyright was created."
This is ridiculous.
These terms need to be greatly reduced. My first instinct is drop it to a decade, maybe even 5 years.
Duration of Copyright
Term of Patent
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