On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:52 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 15/10/06, W. Guy Finley wgfinley@dynascope.com wrote:
We should never stop looking for the free sources of images that we can obtain. But there are a whole slew of historical photographs owned by these media houses we do not have access to and that's what I was getting at.
How much money would it take to shorten US copyright? Everything else is just picking at the edges of the problem.
- d.
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David, I respect your thought on this but this is a pipe dream no hundred million can fulfill. Disney sneezes $100 mil and they have fought for copyright extension extensively. Getting US copyright law changed requires a political movement, and a few hundred legislators growing a background to corporate graft, not necessarily money.
--Guy