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Quoting the Crisis
01/02/2012
“ The statute before us … does not encourage anyone to produce a single new work. By definition, it bestows monetary rewards only on owners of old works – works that have already been created and already are in the American public domain. At the same time, the statute inhibits the dissemination of … foreign works published abroad after 1923, of which there are many millions, including films, works of art, innumerable photographs, and, of course, books – books that (in the absence of statute) would assume their rightful places in computer accessible databases, spreading knowledge throughout the world. „
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Justice Breyer, quoted by Corynne McSherry in Supreme Court Gets It Wrong in Golan v. Holder, Public Domain Mourns | Electronic Frontier Foundation
