A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose For 20 Years Under the TPP | Electronic Frontier Foundation

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-11

Summary:

"What do Japan's Blue Sky Library, Malaysia's answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries' public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) holds. You may have read in the news over the past year about how the public domain has recently been enriched with some exciting new additions, such as Sherlock Holmes and—in countries with shorter copyright terms, such as Canada—James Bond, passing out of copyright, freeing them for reissue, adaptation, and remix. But what you probably haven't heard before is that six of the countries presently negotiating the TPP, and who have reportedly caved in and agreed on copyright term extension, would have been about to contribute cultural icons of their own to the public domain, enriching their own countries and the world with home-grown art, music, and film that is otherwise at risk of being forgotten. These countries are Brunei, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, and Vietnam. Each of these fascinating countries has such a depth of creative talent that an entire article could easily be devoted to each of them, exploring the public domain works that the world can look forward to—or that we will miss out on for another 20 years, if the TPP passes. But for now, a little taste from each country will have to do ..."

Link:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/few-global-cultural-treasures-lose-20-years-under-tpp

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oa.new oa.comment oa.licensing oa.pd oa.treaties oa.tpp oa.brunei oa.canada oa.new_zealand oa.malaysia oa.japan oa.vietnam oa.libre oa.copyright

Date tagged:

02/11/2015, 08:09

Date published:

02/11/2015, 03:09