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He also thinks reducing the length of copyright is "ridiculous".
Most of the people who are critical of the length of copyright protection today are academics.
But readers should not confuse the length of copyright enjoyed by corporations with the copyright protection granted to freelancers.
But an important note to remember amidst the rejoicing: the length of copyright has not shrunk back.
"We also need to bring back into discussion serious issues about the length of copyright, which has been extended again and again for no good purpose.
Take the length of copyright protection: when the first copyright laws were passed in 1790, the length of protection was 14 years.
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In recent years, corporations have been aggressively pushing the bounds of intellectual property — extending the length of copyrights to unreasonable lengths, for example, and patenting seeds.
The Supreme Court decided this week that the Constitution grants Congress an essentially unreviewable discretion to set the lengths of copyright protections however long it wants, and even to extend them.
While I share Hyde's and Darnton's concerns about the irrational length of a copyright's duration, copyrights are still necessary to protect expressions of knowledge, knowledge that is still public and available to all.
As I have said, to some extent costs of this kind accompany any copyright law, regardless of the length of the copyright term.
For another, few, if any, potential authors would turn a "where to publish" decision upon this particular difference in the length of the copyright term.
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