The United States Supreme Court has, in a 7 - 2 decision that was as predictable as it was disappointing, upheld the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Dan Gillmor had the best early take on the issue, running a blistering commentary under the headline “Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft.”
“The thieves,” writes Gillmor, “are the members of the copyright cartel. [They]... and their vassals in Congress have continually heisted what you should already own: the words and songs and films and more of people, long dead, who have already been richly (and justly under copyright law’s original intent) rewarded for their creations.” The only thing preventing Congress from extending the copyright term to forever is, as Gillmor and others have pointed out, that it’s a perpetual instant cash machine for politicians.
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