Robert ReichHow we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
Professor_Stevens5. Return the duration of copyrights to what it was when the constitution was adopted: 28 years.
How? By a SCOTUS ruling that life-of-the-author-plus-70-years conflicts with the constitutional requirement that copyrights are "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
Odds are that Disney will have sole rights to Darth Vader tee-shirts until the 22nd century. How does that promote anything useful?
Stephen HayesHow useful are Darth Vader T shirts?
So they are more useful if A has the right to sell them, but less useful if B has the right to sell them?
And useful for what?
What is the impact on a super-rich corporation when it can sell a cheap shirt anyone could print? What is the impact on a small start-up when it can sell the same shirt? What is the impact on society as a whole when super-rich corporations can buy the rights to 99% of what people want to buy, and keep them for themselves for two lifetimes?