Roy Schestowitz wrote:
New Copyright Alliance hopes to strengthen copyright law
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| Backed by organizations like the MPAA, NBC, News Corp., Disney, Time
| Warner, the Business Software Alliance, Microsoft, ASCAP, the NBA,
| and others, the Copyright Alliance has already secured initial
| support from several members of Congress.
Related to the google attempt to put books on-line, experts see a time
in the near future where copyrights will effectively never expire.
The link is to a podcast. Mostly about storage advances being used to
put the world's books on-line, but it also portrays the looming barrier
of copyright extensions.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/May/hour1_051107.html
Go to the Digital Libraries podcast.
Philip
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