Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:Yeah, they would have probably done a lot more "hard-coding" of things like copyright term limits and exemptions. Author's life plus 70 is absolutely *BLEEP*ing excessive.
Jeeze, this shit is like the Republicans and the AHCA - they just don't give up on it, do they?
EDIT: And on that note, why do I get the sneaking suspicion that this won't be left alone unless there is a Constituional Amendment that protects Fair Use from copyright infringement? Because it is seriously starting to look that bad. I would place a healthy wager that if you went back in time and told the Founding Fathers about the issues of fair use and copyright that they would have included a provision in either the Bill of Rights or the Constitution itself.
All this is, is trying to kill the internet as a distribution platform for everyone, or at least kill the centralized clearing house that is YouTube, and pulling all that back into needing to give over to Big Media if you want your idea to get any sort of reach beyond a local access channel. Pretty much all the YouTube channels I follow have had to deal with copyright claims at some point or another, if not multiple times now. This would just make it worse, and I'm sure several of them would wind up closed down if this happens.
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