18.02.2014 - 15:15 [ Techdirt ]

Australia Pushes South Korea Into Life-Plus-70 Copyright Terms As Part Of Free Trade Agreement

Australia has just put the finishing touches on a free trade deal with South Korea, and hidden amongst the pages of legal wording is a 20-year gift to the copyright industries: (…)

This puts yet another country on the Bono/Disney gold standard and helps ensure South Korea‘s public domain will be as impoverished as Australia‘s and the United States‘.