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Alex3917 on Feb 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scienti...

That's not accurate, they could grant themselves a license to the copyright under eminent domain.

betterunix on Feb 22, 2013 [–]

Or just retroactively reduce the lengths of copyright terms. After all, they retroactively increase the lengths of those terms all the time, so why can they not reduce them as well? The constitution explicitly requires copyrights to expire, but makes no specific mention of what the minimum or maximum terms are.

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