Ender noticed Racing Against Time, by Lawrence Lessig, over at CIOInsight.
Lessig says the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act harms Internet growth, makes it harder for content to be deployed on the Internet; and increases the cost of innovation.
He’s not just a talking head in this case, he argused this before the Supreme Court in October. He takes a look at E-Book Regulation, and Copyright Law in this one.
“The purpose of copyright law is to create incentives that “promote…Progress.” But extensions of copyright for works that already exist do not promote progress. Only 2 percent of the work copyrighted during the first 20 years affected by the Sonny Bono Act have any continuing commercial life. That 2 percent is benefited by the extension, while the rest of the creative work still under copyright is thrown into a black hole of legal regulation. These extensions only harm the creative process, especially when technology makes it possible for so many more to become creators.“
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