Yep. We've left the land of the sane and entered into the land of lucritive but asinine buffoonery.
"In aligning the United States with other nations bound by the Berne Convention, and thereby according equitable treatment to once disfavored foreign authors, Congress can hardly be charged with a design to move stealthily toward a regime of perpetual copyrights," Ginsburg wrote.
Yet, that is exactly what is happening around the world. You are designing an awfully restrictive regime. You complying with conventions and treaties does not make you immune to the point of fact, that this pushes an intellectual agenda scrupulous only of favorable politics according to copyright holders.
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