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: Lessig Blogthe fight against term extension, continued (in Europe)
By Lawrence Lessig
Here's 4:51 from the Open Rights Group on the proposal to extend the copyright term for sound recordings in Europe. (Recall, we extended our term to match the Europeans, but then, surprise surprise, we actually overshot the Europeans in important categories, leading the Europeans now to argue they need to extend the term to match the Americans.)
There's an event on 27 Jan in Brussels to discuss the issue.
Full post as published by Lessig Blog on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).
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