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Copyright and Related Issues: Copyright Terms & Extension

This Libguide is a useful guide on international, regional and South African copyright and related issues.

Copyright Terms around the World

List of countries' copyright lengths (Wikipedia)

Copyright Extension - Negative Impact on Countries, especially Developing and LCD Countries

African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project
All Nations Lose with TPP's Expansion of Copyright Terms
Analysis of August 2015 Leaked TPP Text on Copyright, ISP and General Provisions
Article: Never forever: Why extending the term of protection for sound recordings is a bad idea
Assessing Economic Impacts of Copyright Reform on Selected users and Consumers
Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history
Copyright extension: good for Cliff and the Beatles, bad for the little guys?
Copyright Term Extensions and the Public Domain
Copyright Term Myths and Facts
The CopySouth Dossier
Countries with longer copyright terms have access to fewer books (pay attention, Canada!)
Digital Opportunity A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (Hargreaves report 2010)
The Economic Impact of Copyright – Public Knowledge
The Effect of Copyright Term Length on South African Book Markets (With Reference to the Google Book Project) (P. Heald)(rev Mar 2020)
eIFL Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries (Copyright, The Duraation of Protection and the Public Domain).
eIFL Model Copyright Law – particularly useful for developing and least developed countries
Episode 40: “Copyright Term Extension is a Tax on Consumers” – Paul Heald on What Extending Copyright Term Could Mean for Canada (Feb 2020)
Gowers Review on Intellectual Property (2006)
The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Why Copyright Term Extension for Sound Recordings Could Cost Consumers Millions
IFLA Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in the Digital Environment: An International Library Perspective (2004)(see Limits of Copyright Term)
IFLA on Copyright Term Extension
Intellectual Property: benefit or burden for Africa? (Denise Nicholson)
The International Copyright System: Limitations, Exceptions and Public Interest Considerations for Developing Countries (R. Okediji)
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 40: “Copyright Term Extension is a Tax on Consumers” – Paul Heald on What Extending Copyright Term Could Mean for Canada (Podcast)
Letter on TPP Copyright Term Extension Proposals
Malaysia doesn’t need another 20 years of copyright
Our Last Stand Against Undemocratic International Agreements That Ratchet up Term Lengths and Devastate the Public Domain
Primer on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Extension Act mean for the Library Community (1999)
Protectionism Against the Past (or: Why are Copyright Terms so Long?)
Reimagining copyright’s duration (R. Giblin) Ch 6 of What if we could reimagine copyright?
Report on the SA Copyright Review
Shouldn’t there be a time limit on Mickey’s copyright?
Should we shorten the length of copyright protection?
Stephen Harper extended music copyright to please US record industry lobbyist
The TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Canada May Face Website Blocking, New Criminal Provisions & Term Extension
The Trouble with the TPP, Day 3: Copyright Term Extension
UK Commission on IPR – Final Report - (see issues about copyright term on pages 17 and 27);
Unconstitutionally Long Copyright Terms Stifle Content Creation, Just Ask Disney
What Happens When Books Enter the Public Domain? Testing Copyright’s Underuse Hypothesis Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada
Why Copyright Extensions are Bad for Artists
Why South Africa should resist US pressure to extend copyright terms (P.Heald)