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It's a telling indictment of the current state of intellectual-property regulation that public-domain activists consider a 100-year copyright to be a "victory".
by pianoben 8y ago
It's a telling indictment of the current state of intellectual-property regulation that public-domain activists consider a 100-year copyright to be a "victory".
It's hard to imagine that this term won't be extended again before 2067!
- 35719385638 8y agoAs bad as it is, I'd consider it something of a victory considering the only reason I clicked the HN link to this discussion was my cognitive expectation in yet another defeat for copyright law pessimistically substituted "end" with "extend," and evoked a defeatist reaction that I might come here to bathe in sorrow. Once I started reading the article and comments I was really confused until I reread the title very slowly to catch my mistake in perception. I guess we really do see the world through our own predecided lenses of reality and choose how an internal narrative will match any evidence in support or censor in defense. Or rather, that's only me. And I hope to overcome that with (un)learning. :D
- throwaway77384 8y agoHad the same reaction :)
- onetimemanytime 8y agoAll things considered, a drop from 140 years to 100 is a good outcome. Then we discuss details like the right to profit from mother's /father's music and for how long....