Re:Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright...
by _delirium on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:34PM
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It seems to me ... that a reasonable short-term goal would have been to reduce the term of copyright, ratcheting it back to where it was, say, before Sonny Bono.
A bit of a decrease would be possible, from life+70 to life+50, but since the U.S. acceded to the Berne Convention, it's committed itself to terms no shorter than life+50. I think expanding statutory protections for fair use would probably be a more effective approach, although expanding compulsory licensing is an interesting possible alternative.
A bit of a decrease would be possible, from life+70 to life+50, but since the U.S. acceded to the Berne Convention, it's committed itself to terms no shorter than life+50. I think expanding statutory protections for fair use would probably be a more effective approach, although expanding compulsory licensing is an interesting possible alternative.