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Free speech for me but not for thee. > “The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.” Yeah I call bullshit. This is much more of a “how dare you no
by YSoManyRaptors 4y ago
Free speech for me but not for thee.
> “The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.”
Yeah I call bullshit. This is much more of a “how dare you not push my narrative”.
- throwaway81523 4y agoYeah the proposal is basically theater (has no chance, and conflicts with some treaties that the US is currently in), but it is very interesting that anyone in Congress is even thinking that way. Lawrence Lessig's book "Free Culture" discusses the history of lengthening copyright terms and is worth reading. A shortening bill is quite a reversal of past practice. IIRC, Sonny Bono (of the 1998 term extension act) was Republican, but he was a slight exception to the narrative that the Republicans are the party of finance and oil, while the Dems are the party of Hollywood and big tech. So Hawley's bill (a swipe at Hollywood and therefore at Dems) still fits the narrative. If the bill passes, the early episodes of Star Trek and the early Beatles songs would enter the public domain around now. That would be cool, I guess.