The Republican war on Disney has escalated to DEFCON 2. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday introduced the Copyright Clause Restoration Act and pitched it as a move to undo “speci...
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The Republican war on Disney has escalated to DEFCON 2. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday introduced the Copyright Clause Restoration Act and pitched it as a move to undo “special copyright protections” granted to “woke corporations like Disney.” The bill would reduce all copyright terms to two 28-year periods of exclusivity (taking us from today’s much longer terms back to the framework of the 1909 Copyright Act) and, more controversially, retroactively reduce the copyright terms for firms above a certain size.
