Copyright is a limited government-enforced monopoly given to encourage creation of works for the public to enjoy. It would only take a vote of Congress to cut copyright terms in half, or limit its effect, or put conditions on it again. Copyright was 26 years in living memory, now it's 95 years (retroactive). It can go the other way.
It would take a groundswell of resentment directed at copyright holders to get Congress to act, but they do seem to be intent on offending every last customer.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Copyright is a limited government-enforced monopoly given to encourage creation of works for the public to enjoy. It would only take a vote of Congress to cut copyright terms in half, or limit its effect, or put conditions on it again. Copyright was 26 years in living memory, now it's 95 years (retroactive). It can go the other way.
It would take a groundswell of resentment directed at copyright holders to get Congress to act, but they do seem to be intent on offending every last customer.