Try 70 years after the author's death, and 95 years for a corporate-owned work-for-hire like "Mickey Mouse" and most movies. Those are the numbers thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act (paid for, mind you, by Disney lobbyists), recently (sadly) upheld by a Federal circuit court as not a violation of the Constitution's clause on "limited" time.
The copyright clause was written to support the artists and the generation of arts, not to have one artist's work support his decendents for 3 generations and beyond...
And though parody has been upheld as Fair Use, audio sampling has not, even though its really just an audio form of a collage something upheld as fair use for visual media like pictures and paintings.
DRM techniques are an afront on our Fair Use rights. With analog technology, I have the fair use right to transfer the audio between media-format (LP/CD to cassette, e.g.). With digital technology and DRM, the software says I can not, even though fair use says I should be allowed to...add to that the DMCA which says I can't write software to bypass the DRM, and you have a restriction on my rights in violation of the fair use clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court in 1975.
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28? That's 19th Century numbers
Date: 2003-07-23 12:39 pm (UTC)The copyright clause was written to support the artists and the generation of arts, not to have one artist's work support his decendents for 3 generations and beyond...
And though parody has been upheld as Fair Use, audio sampling has not, even though its really just an audio form of a collage something upheld as fair use for visual media like pictures and paintings.
DRM techniques are an afront on our Fair Use rights. With analog technology, I have the fair use right to transfer the audio between media-format (LP/CD to cassette, e.g.). With digital technology and DRM, the software says I can not, even though fair use says I should be allowed to...add to that the DMCA which says I can't write software to bypass the DRM, and you have a restriction on my rights in violation of the fair use clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court in 1975.