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"* How much media do we 'need'? A lifetimes' worth? Two? How about we just restart broadcasting from the beginning and repeat it all. It will seem new again, to new generations who weren't exposed the first time around.*"

That's classic rock. Any new rock musician is in competition with the best ones of the last half-century. Few will beat the best in the past.

When was the last time someone wrote a new symphony and made money from it?

If it weren't for copyright term extensions, all that would be public domain. In the countries which still have 50-year copyright, it is.




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