Re: [NTLK] More on law

From: Kolbjørn Barmen (kolla_at_nvg.ntnu.no)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 17:55:41 EDT

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, eric engle wrote:

>
> The most recent US copyright statute (Other than the
> 2000 DCMA) is the copyright act of 1978. Which totally
> displaces the common law of copyright.
>
> In other words what Madison or Jefferson think matters
> nil. What does matter is what the congress in 1978
> thought. And what they thought was "Lifetime of author
> plus X years" which was once 25, then 50 and now a
> whopping 75.

Hail Disney...

-- kolla

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