Former Register of Copyrights says terms are too long

09 Dec 2012

In November 2005, Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters gave an impressively candid answer about copyright terms being too long, and that she thought such a situation was a “big mistake.” Unfortunately link rot has begun to set in, and it was somewhat difficult for me to track down a copy of the video.

(When BoingBoing linked to the video in February of 2006, YouTube was in its first year of existence, and far from the ubiquity it’s since achieved. Instead, the post points to AVI, MP4, and MPG files [formerly] hosted on iBiblio.)

I was able to dig up a version crawled by the Internet Archive, and have posted the video more prominently on that site.