Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture
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Posted Friday, March 30, 2012, at 7:58 AM
In the United States, books published before 1922 are in the public domain. Later ones are copyrighted. And the window no longer shifts. Congress enacts retroactive extensions of copyright terms, so the public domain never expands. The impact on book shimpments, as seen above, is dramatic.
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