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11 Jan 15
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Copyright protection lasts too long.
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Under the original American copyright statute, the maximum term was 28 years.
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the current term is much longer than necessary to provide appropriate stimuli for creativity or to protect authors' legitimate interests in the sanctity of their creations.
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Too many creations are protected.
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every creation that evinces a bare minimum of creativity and is fixed in some tangible medium—is automatically protected by copyright law
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there is no comprehensive national (to say nothing of global) registry
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the copyright system is badly over-inclusive.
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In other contexts, the current copyright system gives creators too little aid. For instance, it fails effectively to protect the legitimate interests of the creators of audio and video recordings.
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But in practice, the legal system has been unable to prevent widespread violations of those prohibitions, primarily through peer-to-peer file-sharing.
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believe that free market economic incentives are needed for the production (and often distribution) of all kinds of valuable expression and information, whether we are discussing educational value, civic value, or entertainment value.
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But to get both the desired amount and mix of expression, properly calibrated copyright is the best tool.
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First, the critics argue that digital, networked technology permits expression to be generated and disseminated so easily that copyright is unnecessary—or substantially less necessary. Second, the critics also say that copyright prevents people from recombining and "recoding" existing works, thereby throttling the easy individual expression and cultural progress the internet would otherwise enable. Finally, the critics argue that copyright is harmful because it stifles technological innovation.
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The past decade has seen an absolute explosion of expressive production and dissemination with little or no hindrance from copyright law
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But if you care about films targeted (and financed) for the African-American and gay communities, copyright matters more.
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In truth, what we have now is a mixed economy for expression in which some expression is produced under a patronage model (foundation grants, universities), some expression is produced under the open source model (Linux, blogs), and some expression is produced under a profit/incentive model of copyright.
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22 May 09
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08 May 09
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07 May 09
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06 May 09
Laureen UrquiagaThis house believes that existing copyright laws do more harm than good.
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