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Re: [ARSCLIST] When you die...
On 02/11/07, Bob Olhsson wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> From John Schooley: "... perhaps
> it is fitting that the archives be established overseas as well where
> they are not subject to our draconian copyright laws."
>
> There is the slight matter that the purpose of that "draconian" Bono
> act was to bring U.S. copyright terms into line with most of the rest
> of the world in order to end abuses by people attempting to profit
> from the differences in term length between different countries.
>
To make the laws equally draconian everywhere?
75 years after an author's death is far too long. It is absurd that a
1909 song should still be in copyright.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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