Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica; Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain—here’s what that means
"Until recently, I assumed that the same interest groups would try to
extend copyright terms again in 2018. But the political climate for
copyright legislation has changed radically over the last 20 years.
A year ago, Ars Technica broke the news
that three of the nation's most powerful rights holder groups in the
country, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording
Industry Association of America, and the Authors Guild, were not even
going to try to pass legislation extending copyrights.
"It's not something we are pursuing," an RIAA spokesman told me.
The reason was simple, Grimmelmann argues: they knew they weren't going to win."
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
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