[rumori] Mexico abolishing the public domain

[Kembrew McLeod]

Lessig's blog again:

>  The Mexican Congress is about to consider a revision to its copyright
>  law. Among it many changes, the law will extend the term of copyright
>  from life-plus-70 to life-plus-100. (And no doubt thus beginning yet
>  another cycle of "harmonization" around the world.) Worse, at the end
>  of the copyright term, the government has the right to charge
>  royalties for works in the "public domain."

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml#001027

Any guesses as to when we'll see the government charging for public 
domain works in the US?

jma

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