Sentence examples for corporate copyright from inspiring English sources

All that is keeping fans from this work is the steady erosion of the public domain by corporate copyright holders.

As copyright protection lurches toward perpetuity, America's cultural heritage -- in whatever media -- is increasingly becoming the property of corporate copyright holders.

Yet instead of seeing this new force as a positive development, corporate copyright holders view it as something that must be quashed.

This distinction lies at the heart of a recent Ninth Circuit appeals court decision, which upheld a ruling in favor of Grokster and against an army of corporate copyright owners.

The 1998 extension was a result of intense lobbying by a group of powerful corporate copyright holders, most visibly Disney, which faced the imminent expiration of copyrights on depictions of its most famous cartoon characters.

But that did not make the job any easier for Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School, who faced an uphill battle to persuade the justices that the extension, which Congress adopted at the behest of the Walt Disney Company and other powerful corporate copyright holders, was not only bad policy but unconstitutional.

Today, corporate copyrights last for 95 years, while individuals retain copyrights for 70 years after their deaths.

Indeed, without the copyright extension -- which protects corporate copyrights for 95 years, and individual copyright for 70 years after the creator's death -- the Disney mascot, whose squeaky-voiced endorsements are associated with the corporation's films, resorts, cruises and amusement parks, would have been entering the public domain next year.

In 1998, after intense lobbying from The Walt Disney Co. and other companies, the U.S. Congress passed a law making corporate copyrights good for 95 years and those owned by individuals good for 70 years past the creator's death.

—Fred Haber, VP and Corporate Counsel, Copyright Clearance Center.

I wondered about this young tech-startup founder who put his energy into the debate over corporate-friendly copyright term extensions.