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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. Double Edge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More like double-dildo.

    Copyrights do in-fact fuck the person they apply it to, all-the-while it fucks them in return after everything is settled.

    "We are suing you for copyright infringment!"

    "Yeah, well we're counter-suing you for infringing upon our copyright of suing!"

  2. come on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    copyright extensions PACK YOUR FUDGE

  3. Re:Greed... by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck Hollywood. It's an American shithole (except I do like Roscoe's house of chicken & waffles).

  4. Re:Greed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Weird. Blacks shouldn't be smart enough to operate a computer let alone gain access to one. Go back to pickin' cotton, blackie.

  5. If only Sonny took up skiing a few years earlier by McQuaid · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know, bad joke. But C'mon.. Sonny Bono.

  6. Re:Lol by kantor · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am sure racists crack you up.
    You are one of them bitch.