Hi My last post to this OT thread
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:32:03PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > The way I see it the copyrights system gives authors too broad > protection. Thus too much work will practically never be in the public > domain and be a source of inspiration for future authors. It is well > known that with today's copyright laws, many of the early Disny films > couldn't have been made. A possible move in the right direction. I'm quite skeptical about its chances, but still: http://lwn.net/Articles/137250/ | Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced | | The Public Domain Enhancement Act[1] has been reintroduced into the U.S. | House of Representatives by Zoe Lofgren. This law would require that | owners of copyrighted works file a registration form and pay a $1 fee to | keep the copyright in force after the first 50 years. Works which, after | 50 years, have been abandoned will enter the public domain. [1] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.2408: The point is that most works are not producing any value to their authors after 50 year, not even 2c/year. And hopefully the holder of the copyrights will only bother registrating (and paying for the registration) of copyright-protected work only if it indeed slightly profitable. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
