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OK, if that is what it is, then society will not give you the protection (what it was before the copyright acts).
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In the UK, before the Statute of Anne, all copyright was legally vested in the Stationers' Company in London, only members of the company (and it was a Guild, in the old cartel-style sense of the word, with a monopoly on publishing) could claim the right to protection of works they had registered, and only against other members. That system lasted almost 150 years as a Crown Charter.
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So let's pretend we have a societal backlash, and copyrights are put back to a 14yr term (with maybe a 14yr extension).
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That's not the worrying one. The worrying one is the movement to decriminalise non-profit copying of copyrighted works.
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I hate when corporations buy politicians, and they pass laws that go against the letter and spirit of the constitution of this country (US).
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Heck, it's ludicrous that the Scandinavian countries are the home of the Pirateparty movements. There is a strong social contract in those countries, after all, but if you look more closely the movements are a reaction to the percieved abuse by (mostly American) companies of the social contract from
their side!
Reign in the companies and the pirateparties would close up and go home.