Most of the people who violate this law don't have the money to pay the fine and the US government doesn't have the money or won't allocate the money to build all the BIG prisons to lock everyone in for violating these copyright laws.In reality all they have done is wate a bunch of tax payers money and thier time.BFD!
I'm guessing, though the article does not bother to say, that this applies only to works that are copyrighted under a law in another country. In other words you cannot copyright Shakespeare';s works or the works by any other author or artist long dead. It would be useful to be reminded how long after the originator's death a copyright stays in effect.
apparently according to this ruling they can re-copyright forever. Your decendents will have to pay their decendents for the use of the material originally copyrighted by the long dead.
The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision. Now if we could just stop all those smarmy registered copyright infringers from illegally copying materials, we'd all be fine. Biggest offenders are schools, colleges and universities, followed by church choirs, etc.
Simply put, the United States Congress passed a law that stated that if a work was copyrighted in its country of origin, it would be copyrighted here. The Supreme Court upheld the law.
We expect other countries to honor the copyright of US artists. Shouldn't they be able to expect the same level of respect from us?
Agreed, mnagtwa. The fact is that WORLD-FREAKING-WIDE.... copyrights should be limited to 5 years, at most, after something has the copyright registered.
I agree with ganguandaland. Copyright laws should be as universal as possible between countries and if it is copyrighted in another country it should be copyrighted here. I don't advocate that works that are TRULY in the public domain be copyrighted But because people SAY something is in public domain doesn't mean that it really is. And people that think copyright should be limited to a ridiculously short time are obviously not producers of copyrighted works, but users that want more for free at the expense of writers, artists and musicians, etc.
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We expect other countries to honor the copyright of US artists. Shouldn't they be able to expect the same level of respect from us?