Lessig 213-234

Chapter Thirteen:

Eldred was a smart individual. I remember when Free databases on a public domain were just hitting the school systems when I was in the second grade --- roughly after 9/11

Thought, allowing things to available for free online sounds like a great idea and can work great. There are always those people that ruin the system  and ruin it for everybody.

Corruption
Congress
Copyright

ALL play a role in this new found database of 1995. So, the people that got ahold of copyrighted material before copyright was a thing are fake millionaires that karma is going to find because they stole it!!!

Uhg, it's such a screwy situation, cause like now how do you know what is copyright and what isn't cause the rules change all the time.

"Eric Eldred was fighting a piracy that affects us all"

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"Eric Eldred discovered, we have set up a system that assures that copyright terms will be repeatedly extended, and extended, and extended. We have created the perfect storm for the public domain. Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as 

Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."

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This is what scares me the most, is that copyright terms are extended and the perfect storm is going to have no end in site unless the internet somehow magically become obsolete. But it's also like, you end up seeing that same piece or that same article else where just a slight tweak to make it an "unoriginal"