Thread: What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?
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Old 01-03-2012, 02:28 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer View Post
Anyway, what I really don't understand is retroactive copyright extensions. Copyright is an incentive to create, if the creators already made something based on some monopoly period as an incentive, why extend it after that? What are you incentivizing at that point?
I'm very serious. Copyright should exist to protect property rights in perpetuity; not to grant them for a limited period of time.
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