| @Qaanol: However you feel about 28 years of copyright protection in terms of encouraging innovation, it would be intensely impractical. First of all, the old US law (1909 Act) required an incredibly complex set of registration formalities which made it very difficult to receive protection and required extra formalities for renewal. Such formalities are a violation of the Berne Convention, which the US joined in 1989. Further, every other IP net-exporting country in the world has a term of life of the author plus 70 years. It would sell US works incredibly short to protect them for only 28 years and would engender poor trade relations with other countries, who want their works protected in the US. I agree 95 years is long, but in the US, where we have amazing fair use protection, it just isn't really an issue and would be too hard to change. |
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