On 9/17/2012 5:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:

Personally, I would prefer that people pursue freedom of panorama before we pursue "freedom of deep space objects". The later I would put pretty far down the priority list, actually. How about the following agenda:

1. Freedom of orphaned works
2. Freedom of panorama in U.S.
3. Get Library of Congress to digitize all U.S. copyright records
4. Get U.S. to apply rule of the shorter term
5. Get U.K. to officially kill sweat of the brow
6. Repeal database rights in EU
7. Repeal Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act
8. Fix absurd copyright terms in Mexico
9. Get works by U.S. states added to public domain
10. Freedom of deep space objects
....
99. Profit

I'd probably use a different order, but that would be quibbling. I think just the thought of prioritizing like this is a good exercise, and would love to hear how other people stack up these priorities. It's an interesting challenge to balance which of these ideas would have the most impact with which are the most realistically achievable in the near future.

--Michael Snow