The Beat Should Not Go On: Resisting Early Calls for Further Extensions of Copyright Duration

By Arlen W. Langvardt112 Penn St. L. Rev. 783.

The campaign began even earlier than I thought it would. No, not the 2008 presidential campaign, although that one began far too early as well. Instead, I mean the campaign for yet another extension of copyright duration. Mark Helprin, an accomplished novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and political commentator, fired an opening salvo in this campaign with a 2007 op-ed, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? . . . [keep reading]