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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's the choice that the American people have made, via their elected representatives. Most of us live in countries where new works do enter the public domain every year.
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No, it really is not. One dictate does not mean one dictate forever. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. If we can make elected representatives understand that the economy is and will continue to change they should address what stealing from American citizens is all about.
Copyright is a compact with the citizens through the Constitution to have a monopoly for a short time to encourage science and arts. It is not some entities' personal slave maker. If anyone (or thing) wants copyright forever let's develop a cost analysis of what they should pay in taxes for joint services paid for by everyone to support their business.
As networks become a part of who and what we are as a being, community, state, country and world laws will have to evolve to encompass reality. That's why SOPA is failing. Industries see no problem taking away free speech or convicting without a trial. They have had their Congressional representatives try to vote that into law. Those representatives are seeing the result of being technically ignorant, now.