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If anything anti-copying laws are theft because they control what you do with your own property (hard dive). These professions always existed but needed to support themselves like other artists by actually performing. The production and distribution is not nearly costless. They could perform 1 time and due to recording technology this could be replayed by millions of people at low cost.īut that time is over. During this time this natural monopoly allowed professions like actors, artists, authors, and musicians to spawn incredibly wealthy celebrities. People are easily confused because for 100 years media technology has existed that made it easy to play but expensive to share and copy.

Otherwise we wouldn't have the Bible would we? Copyright is a government monopoly not a natural property right.īooks existed long before copyright. The physical book is property the content is not which is why governments had to set up a whole different structure to support it. You are confusing the physical book and the content. Please consider writing to your congressmen in four years to oppose it.ĮDIT: Apologies, somehow I was using the terms of the Copyright Act of 1976, not the Copyright Act of 1998. The next copyright extension act is due in 2018. Chesterton's Father Brown) become the property of all writers, to make whatever art they wanted to. Disney, a major copyright lobbyist, will do almost anything to prevent Mickey from becoming a public domain character like Sherlock Holmes.Īt the same time, imagine how much brilliant culture we could have if more major characters (such as G.K. As a result, no work written after 1923 has entered the public domain, and the public domain has been frozen there for decades.ġ923 is a critical year, because Mickey Mouse's first short, 'Steamboat Willie', was released in 1928. Every 20 years, the major corporations lobby to have it extended by another 20 years.

Under current law, it is for the entire life of the author, plus 50 75 years (or 75 95 years if published by a corporation). Books are only under copyright for a certain number of years - like 50 or something

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