Melancholy Elephants

Since we have been discussing copyright in our classes, Jennifer posted this blog entry about the story "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson:

Basically, it reminds me that having copyright extended to forever would hurt the people who create original works just as much as it hurts the public goods access to public domain items. Eventually, there will be nothing more to create because in reality, something new is almost always based on something with a twist. Eventually, this would no longer be feasible if there is system of controlling copyright so carefully it would say such items are not original works and not eligible for copyright much less publication or anything else.

Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson