This article by Yuval Dror includes:
The U.S. is one of the world's most zealous protectors of its citizens' intellectual property. But this American zealotry has recently crossed the line into fundamentalism. At the urging of American record and film companies - some of the wealthiest U.S. corporations, which donate millions of dollars to politicians - the U.S. enacted draconian laws that have no parallel elsewhere in the world, whose sole goal is to supply protection that borders on the absurd to cultural works that in the past would have entered the public domain.