Z:gnu-www-ja-misinterpreting-copyright--b56467-This bill extended the copyrig/en

This bill extended the copyright on already published works written since the 1920s. This change was a giveaway to publishers with no possible benefit to the public, since there is no way to retroactively increase now the number of books published back then. Yet it cost the public a freedom that is meaningful today&mdash;the freedom to redistribute books from that era.