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Originally Posted by CamTata
Dear dear Gideon it is you that might need to brush up on history. According to a 1906 New York Times article: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400E1D7173EE733A25751C1A9649D94 6797D6CF.
Twain was a vigilant defender of his and others rights. He (representing authors) even testified before Congress along with John Philip Sousa (representing musicians) in 1906 in support of the bill To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright. His testimony appears on thecapital.net: thecapitol.net/Publications/testifyingbeforecongress_Twain.html.
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idiot the quote i referenced was from his 1906 speech to congress
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My copyrights produce to me annually a good deal more money than I have any use for. But those children of mine have use for that. I can take care of myself as long as I live. I know half a dozen trades, and I can invent a half a dozen more. I can get along. But I like the fifty years' extension, because that benefits my two daughter, who are not as competent to earn a living as I am, because I have carefully raised them as young ladies, who don't know anything and can't do anything. So I hope Congress will extend to them that charity which they have failed to get from me.
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buy it and read it yourself.
The testimony was an attempt by the book publishers to convince congress that the 50 year extension was something that benefited the authors and not themselves.
Mark Twain was one of the authors who were brought forward to make that point
which he did convincingly until he made his closing statement when he made it clear that this 50 year extension was the charity from congress that he himself would not give to his useless daughter.
This was a man who even though he declared bankruptcy, and therefore had no legal obligation to pay back his creditors worked hard to pay back everyone he owned.
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Twain embarked on a year-long, around-the-world lecture tour in July 1895 to pay off his creditors in full, although he was no longer under any legal obligation to do so
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and yet your trying to argue that he seriously wanted copyright extended to 50 years after his death so that his useless children could keep earning money from his work
even though he wouldn't be willing to put a side any of the surplus money he is currently earning for those useless children.
My god how stupid do you have to be to not realize that satire.