Thread: Trans-Pacific Partnership to Increase Copyright Term in Six Nations
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Old 10-12-2015, 05:47 PM   #28
SteveEisenberg
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What's good for Mickey Mouse is good for America
My serious answer to this:

There are lots of good Disney jobs. If collecting royalties on Snow White (1937) helps keep them, I'm fine with it. Also, I'm fine with Life + 50. And I consider a director to be analogous to an author. If the standard were Life + 50 for the directors, Snow White stays under copyright until 2039.

But there aren't lots of jobs in making books published in the 1940's and 1950's into proofread eBooks. Here a Pultizer-prize-winning example my wife and I loved reading in paper, still not a corrected eBook:

http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Land...awakening+land

Life + 50 - Distributed Proofreading Canada gets it in 2019
Life + 70 - Distributed Proofreading Canada gets it in 2039

Life + 50, and it's likely I can re-read as an eBook. Life + 70, questionable I'll make it that long.

Yes this is a selfish argument.

You could say that Americans shouldn't care because copyright length is already (in many cases; I am going to oversimplify) Life + 70 here. Downloading when visiting Canada is admittedly taking advantage of a loophole.

Here's one American argument against TPP even if you don't go to Canada: Now, Life + 70 is a US law that can be changed. When TPP is ratified, it's becomes much harder to change international law.
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