Comments on: the race to the top continues https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2093 2002-2015 Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Lesko https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2093#comment-562 Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:51:50 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/01/the_race_to_the_top_continues.html#comment-562 Doesn’t seem fair. The big money guys always get their way at the expense of the rest of us.

]]> By: Anonymous https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2093#comment-561 Wed, 08 Jan 2003 07:22:14 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/01/the_race_to_the_top_continues.html#comment-561 The hyperlink facility doesn’t seem to work. Here’s the URL for the Morrison column:

http://www.times-archive.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/29/timopnope01002.html

]]> By: Anonymous https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2093#comment-560 Wed, 08 Jan 2003 07:20:45 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/01/the_race_to_the_top_continues.html#comment-560 Richard Morrison predicted this over three years ago in a column in the London Times:

“All this madness has been exacerbated by recent draconian extensions to copyright law. Britain used to have a perfectly adequate 50-years-after-death copyright rule. But in 1995 the European Union decided that all copyrights should be harmonised. Since Germany had a 70-year rule, we were instructed to toe that line. Then last year the US extended its 75-year copyright rule by a further 20 years – primarily because Disney lobbied Congress to keep Mickey Mouse in copyright. Now, presumably, the EU will add another few years in order to ‘harmonise’ with America.”

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