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I agree with you. Incredibly (or perhaps not so incredibly) Congress has gone to great lengths to protect what you call the "distributor" in lengthening, at very times over the past years, the term of copyright. This is a boon to companies like Disney that can now tie up their wares for ever longer periods, which was not the intention of the drafters of the Constitution. My concern is protecting the creator, but that means fighting the Disneys who see their interests threatened. Unfortunately, what digital has facilitated is piracy (cf. China), and only strong criminal law enforcement will help there, but only if the jurisdiction in question agrees. We shall see.
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