[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The big USA Corporations, OTOH, are responsible for the disgraceful extensions of Life + term and Corporate Copyrights, DRM and DMCA.

No disagreement there.

You may also be interested in an upcoming debate (November 15, 2021) at the Soho Forum:

https://www.thesohoforum.org/

Resolution: All patent and copyright law should be abolished.

For the affirmative:

N. Stephan Kinsella (LL.M., King’s College London-University of London; JD, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, LSU; BSEE and MSEE, LSU) is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston. He was previously General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a partner with Duane Morris (Philadelphia and Houston), and adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law. His publications include Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), Trademark Practice and Forms (West/Thomson Reuters 2001–2013), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and the forthcoming Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society.

For the negative:

Richard A. Epstein is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. The author of many books and articles, Richard researches and writes in a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. His most recent book, The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law, was released in March 2020. Richard appears on “The Libertarian,” a weekly podcast sponsored by the Hoover Institution that features a conversation with him on issues of the day. This will mark his fourth appearance as a debater at the Soho Forum.

A few days later, it will be uploaded in video+audio at the "Past Events" section.

(I'm for digitizing and freeing up any and all works.)

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Last night, I was also digging through the ol' podcasts:

• Techdirt Podcast: "197: The Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain"

which also discussed the Public Domain 2019 celebration:

• Internet Archive Blog: "Join us for A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain"

Full video of the conference here:

• "A Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain"

Keynote given by Creative Commons founder (Lawrence Lessig).

And in the Techdirt podcast, they mentioned a fantastic talk by a blind person who explains the entire process from her point of view. (Lightning Talks began in part #2 of the conference at 3:06:00. Her talk started a few minutes later.)