Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill

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37 points·martey··5 comments

Amidst a global pandemic and economic recession, this draconian copyright law gets stuffed into the rear end of our public relief bill? I think this is some smelly bullsh*t

We must remember that copyrights were meant to expire; the system was made to create a rich and robust public domain from which American citizens could tap into for art, inspiration and culture.

To be slightly more accurate, the public relief got stuffed into the rear end of an end-of-year omnibus spending bill. The CASE act provisions also happened to be stuffed into the bill, along with many other things. The resulting bill was over 5,000 pages.

This is slightly more acceptable, thanks for the clarification.

I don't think that's more accurate because it fails to make the substantive distinction between these two provisions. One of them has huge public support and has been debated publicly for months and shot down repeatedly by congressional leadership while the other was written by a Disney lobbyist in secret and revealed at the last possible moment before the grassroots could mount a response.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the largest bill ever passed by the House, at 5593 pages of text [1]. It contains sections about artificial intelligence, carbon monoxide alarms, salmon fisheries, firearm sales, the James Webb Space Telescope, and hundreds of other interesting topics.

Read the full text at the link below. For fun, grep for the phrase "authorized to be appropriated".

[1] https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/file...

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