Comments on: Final 1976 Act Numbers https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2076 2002-2015 Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Gene Hoffman https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2076#comment-481 Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:33:48 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2002/12/final_1976_act_numbers.html#comment-481 Though I certainly concur that the overall relative loss that the pre ’72 copyright would be low, this analysis does skip over one important issue for the AOL-TW’s of the world. The monopolistic use of a lot of works would significantly decrease. A good example at AOL-TW is the PD nature of Bugs Bunny cartoons. For folks like EMI, the Beattle early catalog would be available PD within 20 years instead of 60 or somesuch. I could imagine the Bowie Bonds being thrown asunder to some extent. Most troublesome for many are thinks like the Gershwin music publishing that would all of a sudden leave copyright.

I am an ardent supporter of LL on the Eldrige issues and it is right that these works should leave copyright from a constitutional perspective, but it would create some devaluation havoc that is more real than is let on by this analysis. It also ignores the nature of copyright for the top 2% or works to be the economically interesting component. Its too darn bad that we can get “use it or lose it” copyright legislation passed…

]]> By: Bob Palasek https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2076#comment-480 Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:11:23 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2002/12/final_1976_act_numbers.html#comment-480 I do not read many old books nor
watch old movies. What I do
however is study old time music,
mostly that which was recorded
since 1922. I play it among
friends and family and
occasionally on a saturday night
gathering in a pizza parlor,
among friends and acquaintances,
not for money.

I buy various CD reissues
of ’78s and I learn from them.
I used to listen to oldies and
study them in an academic sense
when they were available on
Napster. Those were the good
old days of the Internet.

As far as invalidating the 1976
extensions,
are the numbers for old hillbilly
recordings much different than
those for books and films?

By the way, it frosts me that
“limited time” presently means
longer than my life time.

]]> By: blufive https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2076#comment-479 Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:38:24 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2002/12/final_1976_act_numbers.html#comment-479 Nitpick: I think Jason’s arithmatic slipped for the book numbers on page two – 4363 is 0.174% of 2500707, not 1.74%.

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