Public Interest Groups and Over a Thousand Users Call on the Copyright Office to Affirm Its Call for Sensible Copyright Policy | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Public Interest Groups and Over a Thousand Users Call on the Copyright Office to Affirm Its Call for Sensible Copyright Policy | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Public Interest Groups and Over a Thousand Users Call on the Copyright Office to Affirm Its Call for Sensible Copyright Policy

Under the copyright term extensions we've seen in leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the quarter of a billion people living in six of the negotiating countries could lose access to 20 years of the public domain.
This proposal conflicts not just with common sense, but with the
suggestions from the United States Register of Copyrights that the U.S.
policymakers should address the downsides of exceedingly long terms.
We've sounded the alarm on that issue through a campaign highlighting TPP's Copyright Trap.


Just a few days into this campaign, over a thousand members of the EFF community have signed a petition urging the U.S. Copyright Office
to affirm its call for sensible copyright term reforms, which can only
happen if countries are not restricted by ill-considered international
agreements. You can add your voice to that chorus today: