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Taiwan Rejects U.S. Copyright Demands
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:06:21 -0400
More likely they want a lot in return djf ------ Forwarded Message From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson () RealMeasures dyndns org> Organization: Real Measures Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:28:57 -0400 To: declan () well com, dave () farber net Subject: Taiwan Rejects U.S. Copyright Demands (Take that, CTEA! :-) -- Seth) -------- Original Message -------- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:47:44 -0700 From: "Jon O." <jono () networkcommand com> To: dmca_discuss () lists microshaft org http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4260499.htm TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has turned down a U.S. demand on Friday to extend copyrights on works including earlier Walt Disney movies for another 20 years as negotiators on both sides held talks on intellectual property rights. Taiwan told a delegation led by Joseph Papovich, assistant U.S. trade representative, that it would not extend copyright protection to 70 years from 50 years, a Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs official said. The U.S. Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether Robert Frost poems and Mickey Mouse movies made more than 75 years ago should become public property or remain in the hands of their owners for another 20 years. At issue is the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended the exclusive period that artists and corporations can control their creative works by 20 years. As a result, thousands of well-known works, from the earliest Disney films to the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, were prevented from passing into the public domain. Billions of dollars of entertainment-industry profits are at stake. ``Taiwan is the first country the United States chose to discuss the issue. We need not rush into concession,'' legislator Chen Chi-mei of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) told Reuters by telephone. ... ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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