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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh well, that's not too bad - only another 7 years. But does anyone really think that there won't be another extension?
Isn't "equal treatment under the law" what this issue is all about? Equal treatment for foreign-published works?
How would you feel about corporate copyright lasting for the lifetime of the corporation, in parallel with the lifetime copyright enjoyed by individuals?
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Only if corporation have to be disbanded and all their I.P becomes public domain after 115 years... Or any change of ownership, either through bankruptcy, takeover, or merger voids all I.P. rights, and they cannot be sold to another corporation.
Harry, these are temporary monopolies. It's bad policy to make them permanent. We busted up the biggest corporation in the world in 1912 (Standard Oil) because monopolies are bad, bad for everybody (even the monopolies themselves).