eldred petition

Tuesday, June 03, 2003, at 09:01AM

By Eric Richardson

Earlier I mentioned the proposed Eldred copyright act. Now they're putting together a petition for it. In the slashdot comments, though, there is some definite misunderstanding of the act. It would not do away with the current life+70 term. Instead, it would simply require renewal at 50 years, and then if that renewal was done the normal term would transpire. You can't renew perpetually, only up to the full length of US copyright term. That said, Congress could still do its 20 year dance, but that's another whole can o' worms.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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