![]() To the CTEA, so the lobbying power of media conglomerates was enough to win the Just as shallow as they are today, back then there was no organized opposition While the arguments in favor of extension in 1998 were (2) the lack of a compelling argument in favor of copyright expansion that Well-organized lobby against more expansions, which did not exist in 1998, and Specifically, contemporary roadblocks include (1) a The CTEA in 1998, today’s political climate is such that similar efforts are And while Disney and other interested parties had lobbied for Passing of the CTEA, new (or should I say “old”) works finally entered the In January of this year, twenty years after the Thankfully, it seems like the era of perpetual copyrightĮxtension may be at an end. Progress of “Science” - by which word the Framers meant learning or knowledge. Importantly, its practical effect is not to promote, but to inhibit, the Its primary legal effect is to grant the extended term not toĪuthors, but to their heirs, estates, or corporate successors. Nation’s founding - is to make the copyright term not limited, but virtually Ashcroft, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer forecasted detrimentalĮffect of this 20-year extension - the longest blanket extension since the In or later than 1999 received a two-decade extension. To works that had already been created but had not yet entered the publicĭomain, every work that would otherwise have had its copyright protection expire ![]() On account of the CTEA’s retroactive application The public domain, whereas the following year, there were no new expiries of In January 1998, all works that were published in or before 1922 entered The CTEA’s effect on the public domain was ![]() The heirs of famous music composers as well as major media corporations, including Top of the 1976 provision, derives from the Sonny Bono Copyright Term ExtensionĪct of 1998 (CTEA), which came to fruition through the joint lobbying efforts of The most recent copyright term extension, which added another twenty years on Reserved a copyright lifetime of seventy-five years. Years, and at the same time, works that originated from corporations were Then, in 1976, copyrights for works by individualĪuthors were extended to the entirety of their lifetimes, plus an additional fifty Revisions to the terms of copyright protection, increasing the maximum period Maximum of twenty years of copyright protection. The original Copyright Act of 1790 allowed for a Over time, the duration of copyright protection has evolved to allowįor longer and longer terms. Horse and converting what was meant to be an incentive for creativity into a Mickey’sĮternal copyright protection would be putting the proverbial cart before the Promoting creation and advancement for the benefit of society as a whole. Though the copyright regime directly providesīenefits to authors, it provides such incentives as a mere means to its end goal: Through the grant of copyright extensions is antithetical to that purpose. Thus conveys that, once those rights reach their time of expiry, the work is toīecome accessible to the public at large. United States as aiming “o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,”Īnd that the “exclusive Right” afforded by copyright shall be for “ limited Times.” The Constitution The foundation of American copyright law and,īy extension, our free-for-all concept of the “public domain,” is rooted in theĬonstitution, which enshrines the purpose of copyright protections in the Gentle balm of comedic nihilism, the prospect of a creative work never entering While our collective grief may have benefitted from the These words are accompanied by a knowing grimace - a morbid joke one makes whenĪttempting to grapple with an unpleasant fact of the world, leaving no remedyīut coping mechanisms. Have heard the phrase, “Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain.” Often, ![]() Many who are interested in copyright issues
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