Geist on copyright

A useful post on the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) blog, useful that is for those of us unable to attend the Hart House Lecture in Toronto on Thursday night. Professor Michael Geist was talking about copyright. PWAC executive director John Degen (for whom copyright talk seems to be meat and drink these days) asked Geist why copyright should extend one day after the writer/creator is dead and got an interesting response.