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Originally Posted by khalleron
I agree, especially since the current state of copyright law is the result of a corporation's fixing the legislative process.
Who has more clout these days, Google or Disney?
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Disney has more political power but Google knows how the internet actually works. They're better equipped to argue for the future of technolegalities.
Copyright law reform needs an advocate like Google to go to Congress (or hell, the UN) and say, "look at all the shiny new toys and commerce and research and education and communication you *could* be having... if our hands weren't tied by this law that's not benefiting anybody but corporate lawyers." (I don't mean "copyright law;" I mean the aspects of it that deal with orphan works; I mean the lack of coherent rules about fair use; I mean the broken DCMA that doesn't allow for easy prosecution of false claims.)