Chief Proponent of 1976 Copyright Act Dead at 91

Robert W. Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat who in 1976 managed the first general revision of copyright law since 1909, died on Friday at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 91.

“Copyright and intellectual property is basically not ideological,” Mr. Kastenmeier said in an interview for this obituary in 2012, adding, “If you think the law has to be changed, updated, that doesn’t really have anything to do with being conservative or liberal.”

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