Re: a talent for writing doesn't translate to a talent for marketing

From: "Joseph Dowdy" > 
> I was just reading Ursula K. LeGuin's take on the importance of copyrights
> and how they are a relatively recent invention.
<snip>

Joseph,

It is an excellent article until the point of copyright term. I have just left this comment, which give a better idea of copyright which is, of necessity, international, and must be i nthe digital age:

Ursula,

You were doing so well till you got to this:
'...Copyright used to be 28 years, plus a 28-year extension at request. It is now the lifetime of the author plus 70 years (that could be 120 years!) - an indefensible crippling of the intention of the Copyright Act, ...'

The Berne Convention was first signed at the end of the nineteenth century; it required life plus 50 years. It has been gaining ground very well and even the US, which waited 100 years to sign it, made a chain of alterations to term from 1960, in order to be accepted as a signatory.

The US Bono Act added only 20 years, a lot less than you suggest. 

Otherwise an excellent and logical and careful article.

Joseph Harris



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