On 24/05/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 5/24/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
> > It seems that concerns us.
> Not really since the 50 years is rather an oddity
and since we are US
> based we can't make any use of it.
There must be some well-known UK authors/singers/song
writers etc
opposed to the 70 years rule. We should find and contact them,
offering to store their valuable works on the commons under a free
license. That would demonstrate how much the public could gain from
*less* copyright, without bankrupting the media companies^W^W artists.
Note that the Open Rights Group (
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/) is
hot on the topic as well. Not sure we've found loud voices against it.
- d.