Re: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress

From: Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:42:17 -0700

On 10/19/98, Robert Cumbow <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> wrote:
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> While I'm not necessarily in favor of copyright extension, I have to
> point out that this is not a "diminution" of the public domain. It
> is at worst a delay of 20 years bfore anything new enters the public
> domain. But nothing is being taken back out of the p.d.

I'm afraid that such an argument is pretty thin. If Congress passes a bill that takes 1000 works out of the public domain now, there is a diminution in the public domain, but if Congress passes a bill that makes the public domain 1000 works fewer in 1999, there is none?

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Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu>
UCLA School of Law '98
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