Re: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress

On 10/8/98, Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The bill extending the U.S. copyight terms by 20 years was passed by
> both the House and Senate on Oct. 7. It appears certain to become law
> now. This effectively freezes the public domian in the U.S. for the
> next 20 years.
>
> In my opinion this is a great tragedy for the American people in
> general and for writers, artists and other creative people in
> particular.

Having spend some time trying to clear copyrighted works for users, I tend to agree this is not all that good. Perpetual copyright for only "limited times"?

Berne Broadbent
<bbroadbe[_at_]kmclaw.com> Received on Fri Oct 09 1998 - 17:42:58 GMT