These are exciting times for copyright policy. The rise of the Internet has facilitated piracy on a massive scale. After repeated copyright extensions, works from the 1920s will start entering the public domain again in 2019 unless Congress makes terms even longer. And politically, the lobbying force of Hollywood, the music industry, and other copyright-based economic heavyweights is being met by tech interests like Google, as well as copyright-skeptical scholars across the political spectrum.
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