Supreme Court Upholds Extended Copyrights
Quote: “Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory Wednesday as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars.”
Comment: Lawrence Lessig, a key figure in this case, has previously posted four points relating to copyright:
- Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
- The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
- Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
- Ours is less and less a free society
Current copyright holders (who have built much of their copyright by adapting others’ work) are now trying to limit the ability of next generation building and innovation.