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The Double Edge of Copyright Extensions

Posted by michael on from the pay-it-forward dept.

porkface writes "The Morning News is running a simple, but eloquent editorial that plainly shows how Hollywood has routinely benefitted from the expiration of copyright, despite their adamant pressure on Capitol Hill to extend copyright almost indefinitely."

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  1. Re:Lost Culture by Arandir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Liberals at every free-thinking college are too busy copyrighting their stream-of-consciousness rantings-as-textbook to care.

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    A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
  2. Re:May I direct your attention... by SN74S181 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moral rights are bullshit?

    Golly.

    If I sing a song I uniquely composed and wrote once in public, I have copyright on that song and that performance.

    I get to decide if it's ever performed again.

    Sorry, your publishing company isn't allowed to decide when and where it's published. There's no dictatorship of the majority where it concerns my creations.