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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think this is exactly right. And unfortunately, the politicians who ought to be working for the public good tend to be influenced by the people with money instead. And have been for at least a couple of hundred years.
Although I suppose some of them may just be honestly mistaken.
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You are too kind.
(The classic definition of an honest politician is "the one that stays bought." )
The politicians with the power to change/reduce copyright are themselves people with money. No politician who's been around much is ever poor. And when it comes to copyright, the traditional publishing system is one of their bigger avenues of enrichment.
May I assume politician autobiographies and "vision statement" books are a thing on your side of the pond?
Cause on the US side every politician with any significant aspirations has at least one (typically ghost-written) book on their resume, with an attached seven figure advance that rarely if ever earns out.
Considering the folks dishing out that largesse make their money off control of copyrights they won't see any reduction with friendly eyes and those advances can be very, ahem, persuasive. So let's not hold our breaths.