Comment by kube-system
4 days ago
And my point is I don’t know why “Europe” would want to evade law that was their entire idea to begin with… and that they widely continue to enforce.
Copyright in Spain is automatic and life plus 70 years. Same as the US and every country in Europe except for Monaco and San Marino where it’s 50.
That is ridiculous argument. Yes a coutry can have an idea and then 200 years later fundamentally disagree with self serving damaging implementation of it.
But they don't; they all currently have strong copyright law.
Largely because of American diplomatic/soft power, which has been significantly weakened of late, protecting the interests of American media conglomerates.
Every extension of copyright for the last several decades has been driven by the desire to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain.
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