> I wonder why the EU increased the copyright terms Disney was the main lobbying force? Some EU countries have pretty old and powerful copyright lobbies of the

> I wonder why the EU increased the copyright terms Disney was the main lobbying force? Some EU countries have pretty old and powerful copyright lobbies of their own, Germany is such an example with Springer and other big publishers. That's why Germany loves "ancillary copyrights" of all kinds, the one for press publishers [0], pressuring Google, was one that even went international. The same copyright interest holders were also responsible for establishing legal constructs like "auxiliary liability" [1], which ultimately led to the situation that most of the German language Internet needs to be moderated or else hosters make themselves liable for content posted by users [2]. So while Disney might be the biggest, and most visible, culprit, they are far from the only ones. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_... [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B6rerhaftung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B6rerhaftung [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forenhaftung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forenhaftung