Government plan over copyright-protected work would put industries in ‘dangerous position’, Alex Mahon tells MPs
  • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Terrible.

    Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole reason copyright was created. By lobbying to change copyright terms to forever. Locking it out of the public domain.

      • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Lobbying to change the copyright to forever is certainly happening in the UK.

        And the current 50 or 70 years is def a move towards it from the original 14 to 21 years created in 1710 when copyright was first created in the UK.

        So yes it is. We are just a slower change then the US