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Cato Weekly Podcast • January 24, 2018 

# This Year ‘Big Content’ Likely Won’t Push to Extend Copyright 

Without action by Congress, a whole class of copyrighted works will fall into the public domain next year. And yet, Big Content isn’t fighting to stop it. Timothy B. Lee of Ars Technica discusses why.

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##### [Timothy B. Lee](/people/timothy-lee)

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##### [Caleb O. Brown](/people/caleb-o-brown)

Former Director of Multimedia, Host and Executive Producer, *Cato Daily Podcast*, Cato Institute