Re: Neat summary of Google strategy

From: "Robotech_Master" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Neat summary of Google 
strategy


> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Marion Gropen 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> -- Works DO go into the public domain eventually, so it's 
>> not as if
>> there will never be the possibility of re-issuing them.
>>
>
> Not since Disney they don't.
>
> Just wait a few years and watch the Disney lobbying 
> machine kick into gear
> again as the next date for "Steamboat Willie" to pass into 
> the public domain
> approaches.
> -- 
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>

Chris raises a very important point here. I have never seen 
a convincing argument for increasing the legth of Disney 
[and other visual arts] copyrights, just as I have never 
seen a convincing case for shortening it.

This lends to the idea of bad law, and bad law does get 
ignored. This is the problem with corporations buying and 
selling politicians and governments - but that is another 
area of argument, though pertinent.

Joseph Harris 



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