Budo: The Art of Killing his native Japan until he came across Arthur Davis, an American film exhibitor who ran a distribution company in Tokyo. Davis stated he funded the film out of the respect and gratitude he felt towards Japan. "The Art of Killing" won first prize at the 1978 Miami International Film Festival, but did not find an American distribution deal until 1981, when it was acquired by Crown International Pictures and received a limited release in 1982 under the title "Budo". The film eventually got a VHS release through Prism Entertainment which helped build its cult status among Japanese martial arts practitioners
Copyright term extension, he is not arguing against copyright. This point is well made by Macaulay himself: Liebowitz describes use of the term monopoly in relation to copyright as misleading, but "rhetorically effective". While Towse writes that a more appropriate term is 'monopolistic competition'. In 2009, a paper by Rufus Pollock of University of Cambridge scientifically quantified the optimal copyright term length at 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term, via an economical model with empirically-estimable parameters. In 2013 scholar Petra Moser concluded in a paper on the impact of the copyright extension on the British Copyright Act of