[CrackMonkey] Supreme Court to Intervene in Internet Copyright Dispute

[Joey Hess]

> The Constitution authorizes Congress to give authors and inventors the
> exclusive right to their works for a "limited" time. In 1790,
> copyrights lasted 14 years. Now it's 70 years after the death of the
> inventor, if the person is known. 

I wonder if it's possible to write up a license such that a work is
licensed under, say, the GNU GPL for the next ten years, and after that
have it revert to the public domain exactly as if the copyright expired
at that point. I wouldn't mind using such a license on some of my
software.

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