CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Culture Movement, Community Theatre
15 Dec 2017
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It can be use and corporate in other use, can put public domain on websites. Q: can you think of any other examples where public domain material enables life and culture. One is legal and the other one isn"t copyright law serves two sets of interest: copyright holders, and media users. Law is the most important because it can put pressure. 1790: 14 years and if author still alive 14 more (28 total). 1831: 28 years and if the author was still alive 14 more (42 total) 1909: 28 years and if author still alive 28 more (56 total) movies started to be created. 1962: started to extend copyright for certain properties. 1976: extended existing copyrights 19 years (75 total) 1978: all copyright maximum term life the author +50 years (70 for corporations) People should have the right to choose or not. They could inforce copyright by using advertising and the software they have to promote .
