According to the American copyright law, the term for one’s right over his/hers work is indefinite as long as that person is alive. An online petition is hoping to change that. The petition is available on White House’s official website, and aims to gather 25.000 signatures to restore the term of copyright back to 28 years. In just 24 hours the petition gathered more than 2.000 signatures. Here’s what it says: Our Founding Fathers established an initial copyright duration of 28-years, but that has been repeatedly extended to up to 120 years to favor corporations like Disney and Sony and authors’ descendants at the expense of the public. Such durations ignore the Constitution’s requirement that copyrights be for limited times and promote progress in science and the useful arts. They actually inhibit scientific progress by restricting the free flow of information, preventing global digital libraries, and withholding information that future generations need to freely exchange and build upon.

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Online Petition For Restoring US’s Copyright Term Back to 28 Years