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No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

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156 points rntn | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ronsor ◴[28 Jun 25 19:19 UTC] No.44407371[source]▶
Copyright is finally being deprecated as it should be.

I'm still waiting for an update on the final removal timeline.

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kelnos ◴[28 Jun 25 20:04 UTC] No.44407723[source]▶
That's a dangerous assumption to make. Dropping staffing levels at the US copyright office doesn't change the law. The next administration (or even this one, given how fickle Trump can be) may ramp up enforcement again and go after people committing violations during the current period.

And it's not like copyright outside the US is a wild west; most national and international copyright regimes in the developed world are based on the US's system (often because the US has strong-armed other countries to comply).

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1. like_any_other ◴[28 Jun 25 22:50 UTC] No.44408823[source]▶
> Dropping staffing levels at the US copyright office doesn't change the law.

We see this at the patent office, where overworked patent examiners leads to more junk patents being granted. Which is utterly backwards, and stems from viewing patents as something the applicant has earned and needing a good justification to deny them the fruits of their labor, and not as what they are - an enormous restriction on everyone else.