[Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

Thu Jun 23 19:23:10 UTC 2011

Europe is already in line. Where the U.S. is exercising its muscle on IP 
issues is mainly Latin America (where many countries like Brazil, 
Belize, and Jamaica still have reasonable IP laws). The U.S. commonly 
pressures Latin American countries on IP issues when negotiating trade 
agreements.

Obviously we have a lot of work to do to reform U.S. copyright law (rule 
of the shorter term, freedom of panorama, etc.), but it would be nice if 
we don't actually shrink our public domain in the meantime.

Ryan Kaldari

On 6/23/11 12:02 PM, geni wrote:
> On 23 June 2011 19:38, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Considering that that's precisely the point - that if the US starts
>> re-enclosing the public domain, it will use its influence to get other
>> countries to do the same - and I expressly said so upthread, well, no,
>> I'm not going to argue that. Do try to keep up.
> A bit late no? Other countries have done precisely that. The UK when
> we jumped from life+50 to life+70. In fact if anything the influence
> has so far been the other way around. The rest of the world signed up
> for the Bern convention and Europe went in the direction of life+70
> then the US did.
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