A dialogue on public domain

I recently added an RSS feed to my iPhone, and as I was laying in bed reading through posts, I ran across a post from The Rejector about public domain and the copyright law. At the end, she asked if anyone else had a different take. I do.

I'm actually against the extension of copyright laws to the point that it has now reached for the written word. Works in the public domain are more published and better-read as a result, and if an estate is large then children are likely to squabble over...