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US Supreme Court announces: Congress may pass privatization laws in public domain

I hope not many have forgotten that on January 17 in the article “ Jesus Christ and the ethics of free copying ” I announced the possibility of a copyright apocalypse, which would be a forerunner when right traders who are not satisfied with the successive extension of copyright to the future (and now these lines in a number of countries they have reached or are ready to reach a whole hundred years !), they will begin to extend them into the past - that is, to privatize those creative works that long ago (many decades ago!) turned into public domain.

And what? The very next day (January 18) , a note “ Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain was published in Wired that a court decision was adopted at the highest level in the United States, which recognizes the right of Congress to issue laws and pass international treaties extending the copyright deadlines, re-translating some creative work from the public domain (where they came to the United States for one reason or another) into the category of private ownership of the traders.

The possible first goals of such a privatization in Wired are “The Shape of Things to Come” by HG Wells, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky’s musical works, Peter and the Wolf by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev and his own Symphony No. 1 re Major "Classical", the Fourteenth Symphony of Shostakovich and his own "Concerto for Cello" (although it is not specified which; and after all Shostakovich left more than one "Concerto for Cello" to the world).
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So far we are talking about those works, the copyright on which exists outside the United States and can now be re-introduced in the States themselves (for example, on the basis of an international treaty such as the Berne Convention). But what further future predicts this gesture?

Think about it.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/142008/


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