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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think that the role that Disney have played in extending copyright terms in the US is utterly represensible. I condemn them unreservedly. Fortunately not every country has gone down the same road; here in the UK, for example, the government recently rejected a proposal to extend copyright terms on the grounds that doing so would not be in the public interest.
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And that was a good moment, however, it won't stop the content owners (again, as distinct from the content creators) from trying again and again.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01...amendment-time
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/...tection_en.htm
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...extension.html
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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's nothing wrong, however, in "taking" stuff from the public domain. The whole point of the public domain is that anyone can do anything with anything in it, including reselling it commercially, etc. If you want to take a Shakespeare play from the public domain and publish it commercially, that's perfectly legal.
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Oh, I agree. It becomes immoral when you try to stop others from eventually using your work in the same way.