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Tuesday, May 21, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52556,00.html Making Copy Right for All Kendra Mayfield Less than five years ago, Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse was set to expire. But rather than let Mickey go free and enter the public domain, Disney campaigned with other Hollywood studios and major record labels to press Congress to pass the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), a law that extended copyright protection for another 20 years. But recent copyright extension laws such as the CTEA are too restrictive, leaving fewer creative works in the public domain, critics say. That's why a group of legal scholars and Web publishers are launching a nonprofit intellectual property conservancy to help artists, writers, musicians and scientists share their intellectual works with the public on generous terms....
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