A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html?ei=5124&en=3571064d77055f41&ex=1337313600&exprod=permalink&partner=permalink
"But it might also be for the public good were Congress to allow the enslavement of foreign captives and their descendants (this was tried); the seizure of Bill Gates’s bankbook; or the ruthless suppression of Alec Baldwin."