Just how that will help anybody get Congress, (with all those contributions and other financial enticements from the Disney Corporation and other major intellectual property owners) to change their minds and shorten copyright protection escapes me, but apparently somebody thinks there is hope.
I also have read that electronic petitions, since the signatures are unverifiable, carry no legal or moral weight whatsoever, so I don't think the petition the original message linked to will do any more than those spurious NEA or NPR petitions that are still circulating around the internet.
People in the United States should organize letter-mailing campaigns to their local congessional delegation. That will be more effective, especially if all Senators and Representatives find their mailbags overflowing at the same time with letters asking for copyright reduction. Of course a single check from Disney Corporation, or a free "workshop" for Senators, Representatives and their families, at a Disney resort will carry a lot more weight than a million letters from ordinary Citizens.
Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 9:58 AM 06/13/03, James O'Briant wrote:
[quoting someone]
There is an individual trying to get Congress to address this problem.
There are several individuals. Dennis Karjala at the University of Arizona (or was it ASU?) is also very active in this. Eldred, as I recall, is the reprint publisher who took the test case to the Supreme Court.
mdl
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