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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
You know what's a lot more like real theft? It's when Congress took away thousands of works that belonged to us, the people, by declaring their copyrights were retroactively extended, despite the fact that, when they were published, it was under the agreement that they'd be monopolized for a maximum of 56 years. Everything published before 1954 should be in the public domain. Most things published before 1982--everything not registered with the US copyright office--should be in the public domain.
Return *those* items to us, the public, and we'll talk about respecting the new copyrights.
Because right now, we've got no reason to believe anything will *ever* enter the public domain.
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That's my feeling.
And add to that the point that the matter (that copyright is to be for a limited period only) is in the Constitution.