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Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

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Re: How Archaic Are the Opinions Here?

"Under US law, companies *are* human beings, are they not?"

For the purposes of Copyright, a corporation only gets a fixed time. Of course, every time the copyright for the original Mickey Mouse cartoons is going to run out, the time period gets extended. I think it's time to prosecute any lawmaker that proposes a new extension for taking bribes and order a microscopic forensic examination of Disney's financials to capture everybody that been paid.

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