MITCH STOLTZ, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ; US Copyright Term Extensions Have Stopped, But the Public Domain Still Faces Threats
"We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation...
Copyright terms remain far too long. It will be nearly two decades before a filmmaker making a documentary about the World War II era can use music recordings from the period without facing what the Recording Industry Association of America and other music industry groups have called a “staggeringly complex” licensing process—or else risking massive and unpredictable statutory damages in a copyright suit.
Rather than preserving culture, long and complicated copyright terms keep us from our history. And that cannot be what copyright was meant to do."
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