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[Kay Spencer]

Paul,
 
 
the partial explanation...
 
".....few people looked at either bill very carefully. Critics who did called it "the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act" or the "Copyright Theft Act," noting that its primary purpose was to protect Hollywood's profits and not necessarily its creative products. 
 
And those profits aren't puny. As a single example, Disney found itself the target of a surprise takeover bid by cable giant Comcast Corp., which in February, 2004, offered $49 billion (US) for Disney, later increasing it to $67 billion (US). The bid was abandoned in April, but it did serve to show just how much property Eisner was protecting. 
The impact of the two acts of Congress was that corporate interests could hang on to all sorts of creations that could be protected by copyright for nearly a century. For instance, no works copyrighted in the U.S. would enter the public domain until Jan. 1, 2019, when all works created in 1923 would become eligible. By then, of course, the studios — and the recording industry, which followed on Hollywood's heels — would have figured out how to combat the new threats to their classic marketing models: digital technology and the Internet. "
 
 
You can read the full explanation at:
 
http://tinyurl.com/6mw5d
 
 
Kay in Gilroy
 
 


--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Paul Gorelick <drpag at flash.net> wrote:

From: Paul Gorelick <drpag at flash.net>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] (no subject)
To: "KayS" <kay2840 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:20 AM


In Levy sheet music, he says that a song written in 1928 is protected.  Why
when a copyright exists for 70 years after the death of the original writer.
1928 plus 70 equals 1998.  It should not be protected unless I'm reading it
wrong.  Paul
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