With all the bad decisions and changes making incoherent copyright law even worse, it’s nice to see a bit of good news: UK Rejects Copyright Extension. I stand by what I’ve said before… copyright should be very simple: 14 years automatic plus one 14 year extension possible if the copyright holder chooses to activate it. [...]

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Nothing particularly earthshaking in this Forbes article about the exaggerated demise of the printed book except that it’s one of the few pieces on this subject in a mainstream media source that points to the much more important– and often completely ignored– issue of the harm in current copyright protections:
For Stein, serious engagement with ideas [...]

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