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June 16, 2003
Canada to Scrap Copyright Extensions on Unpublished Works
Decima's Canadian New Media reports that the Canadian government plans to drop controversial provisions from a bill that would have extended the term of copyright for unpublished works by deceased authors. Dubbed the Lucy Maud Montgomery Copyright Term Extension Act, members of a committee considering the bill noted that they had been flooded with calls and emails of people concerned with the copyright extension.
While Japan passes Copyright Extension law
The Diet on Thursday passed a bill to revise the copyright law to extend the protection period for movies from the current 50 years to 70 years after their release. The House of Representatives approved the bill unanimously at its plenary session, some three weeks after the House of Councillors endorsed the proposed revision. The revision takes effect Jan 1 next year.
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