SOUTHERN VIEWS - COPYRIGHT AND MEDIA By Jim Elliott (Article)
Jim Elliott with Joan Ann
THOUGHTS FROM BEAUFORT -
The question of copyright seems to be under review with an element of the academic and consumer world hoping to limit the purview of copyright protection while much of the corporate world hopes to extend its range and duration. The latter group seems to be winning with the 1998 Copyright Extension Act which lengthened the period of protection by twenty years, and the successful prosecutions of down loaders of music and movies.