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It sounds like the "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their resp
by mtgx 8y ago
It sounds like the "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries* is made real by less copyright, not more.
And yet, Congress is now trying to extend copyright to 144 years.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/us_congress_copyright_extension/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/us_congress_copyrig...
- icebraining 8y agoNo, it's not, that Act doesn't extend copyright terms. Those works are already protected until 2067 (144 years, for some of them). The Act changes the type of protection they receive during that term, specifically meaning that streaming services will always have to pay royalties for using those songs, rather than that being decided depending on state law.