According to the New York Times, the Supreme Court has upheld the law that permits restoration of copyright protection to works formerly in the public domain (we first mentioned the case last October). This means that possibly millions of foreign works that previously had been freely available, such as Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” the British films of Alfred Hitchcock, and the drawings of M. C. Escher, will once again be under copyright. What do you think? Does restoring copyright to these works make sense?
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It makes no sense whatsoever.
Completely agree. Such extensions of copyright are bad for education and bad for cultural innovation. They benefit the very few at the cost of the many, and are no benefit at all to the artists originally responsible for these works.