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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, that would be silly. But I would be happy if Congress granted a 1000 year copyright to Disney if it meant, as a consequence, that the rest of US copyright law could get back to something that's at least vaguely in line with what's done in every other western nation.
You say that the legal standing of the Public Domain is under threat, but isn't the truth of the matter that it's already well and truly stamped underfoot? For virtually nothing published after 1923 to be in the public domain, and nothing new to enter it until - is it 2047? - is just madness.
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2019, actually...(The 1923 pre-Berne extension is up then.)
It had not been totally stamped underfoot, because once in P.D. always in P.D. was the viewpoint. Now that's gone. That really is stomping it under the jackboot...(or is it the Dollar?)
The bedrock of our constitution and world view has always been equal treatment under the law. Granting a corporation specific favors under law is not the right way to go.