It is hard to imagine that one can get confused by such flowing prose, it would have been better to "call a spade a spade"  I guess the point he makes is that copyright has a limited span of life? As such, at present 70 years from the death of the holder... Perhaps like the rules that seem to apply to differing countries re copyr5ight, he holds similar illusions that property is safe from the state... Wish that were the case in my country...

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt