Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
Le Tuesday 12 April 2005 16:35, The Cunctator a écrit :
We should be making an official comment on the
issue of copyright orphans
now before the U.S. Copyright Office. The deadline is May 9.
From
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/:
(...)
This is clearly something the Wikimedia Foundation
should officially weigh
in on.
I totally agree with this.
I already put my previous submissions into the mailing list. It's No.
697 in the records of the Copyright Office. All 714 submissions may be
read as pdf files. Is there a way to do a text search for all those pdf
files to see if any other submissions used the string "wiki"?
The current round of submissions is for responses to what has already
been submitted. In the sampling that I have looked at there seems to be
a very strong something-needs-to-be-done trend.
One observation that I have made about the submissions favouring the
status quo is the emphasis on the rights of current authors, and seem
not to mention the rights of the author's descendants at all. Having
Life + 70 really doesn't do anything for the authors themselves. More
ironic is their tendency to view proposed changes to the copyright
regime as attempts by corporate interests to undermine the rights of
authors and artists. It seems to me that the corporate interests have
sold them a bill of goods.
Another important article to read from "Wired" is this by Julian
Dibbell:
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html
There is a lot for many of us to learn from what is going on in Brazil.
Ec