On 15/10/06, W. Guy Finley wgfinley@dynascope.com wrote:
On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:52 PM, David Gerard wrote:
How much money would it take to shorten US copyright? Everything else is just picking at the edges of the problem.
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.
Yeah, I know. It's still the actual problem, though.
(This is why I actually hope Citizendium and Encyclopedia of Earth take off - more open content is good for propagandising the model.)
I suppose the best stuff would be the stuff that would serve as good lead examples for the rest.
- d.