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[BRosholdt <rosholdt@erols.com>]

I highly recommend that if you can get a copy of the movie, "The Future of Food", watch it.  It deals with the patents that corporations are right now applying for on long-publicly available varieties of all kinds of crops as well as the whole issue of what is in the food you eat and who controls it.  The attached website also has places where there are free public showings.  You will probably not ever see this on mainstream media.
http://www.thefutureoffood.com/

Barbara Rosholdt
3Domes
Zone 6b/7a Virginia

From:

"Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>

Date:

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:04:25 -0600

To:

"North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

Chris wrote "If you look inside books lately the copyright is not held by the

writer, but by a corporation (of the writer's ownership).  As corporations are legal 'persons' but do

not 'die' in the usual sense, does this mean the copyright is forever?"

 

 

Yes, Chris, is does mean the copyright last forever, as long as the corporation exists.  This assures the writer's estate will maintain the copyright for future generations to receive any and all royalties due to the copyright holder, particularly if there is some sort of sequel to their original writing, such as "Gone with the Wind" and it's later sequel, etc.  It is a good tool especially for estate planning.  We have actually had the orchard here put into a family trust so that the  it will be passed on to future generations of the family.  It also shields those future generations from estate/inheritance taxes. 

 

 

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com