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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
There's a new paper our ( here) that argues that copyright terms should be reduced and that copyright shouldn't be a component of international "trade" agreements like the TPP.
From the paper:
Even if you don't agree with the conclusions of the paper, it does provide a very succinct history of copyright in the U.S., and it's definitely worth reading for that alone.
As an interesting aside, the paper is written by Darek Khanna, who wrote a short paper previously while he was a staffer for the Republican party in the U.S. The paper was published, but Hollywood lobbyists freaked out and the paper was retracted and Khanna was canned (despite the fact that the Republican's own study committee vetted and approved the paper prior to publication). |
I can't understand why movies are protected by the same copyright rules as books. No one anticipated the needs of movies in 1788. The Constitution was obviously intended to deal with books since they didn't even have the technology to mass produce copies of color images in print.