The Tyranny of Copyright suggests that culture is a public right endangered by copyright extensions, and it portrays legal scholars and trial lawyers as creative thinkers who hope to restore the “Jeffersonian” ideal of a “free society” by rolling back or ending the protections now afforded creative work. But the case against copyrights is academic. Creative work is produced by real people working in the real world. The readers of the article should not confuse the length of copyright enjoyed by corporations with the copyright protection granted to freelance creators. Corporations don't create, individuals do and the longer a corporation can extend copyrights produced by employees or obtained from freelancers, the longer it will succeed and try to keep that work out of the public domain.
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