On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:12 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 29 October 2012 13:39, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If the question is indiscreet/offtopic forgive me
and ignore it/more it
another list, but: what are Romney's views on copyright?
I read on today's Financial Times Europe (p. 4) that he has a couple
millions dollars invested on Hollywood funds, so is it pessimistic to say
that he must hold horrible positions on copyright?
Both parties appear to strongly support the present regime.
I'm not sure this is totally fair.
I think the White House has somewhat embraced Creative Commons for certain
works and there's some good work going on at <http://www.data.gov>.
Of course, all works of the United States federal government done by federal
employees are automatically public domain, so in many ways, the U.S.
government is way ahead of the curve on this issue. ;-)
And though it's not directly tied to the White House, several US
agencies have made good progress on copyright and open access
initiatives during the last four years; I'm thinking of, for instance,
the NIH deposit mandate and NSF data sharing rules. And I think we are
all familiar with the recent stellar work of the National Archives :)
Obama did speak out against SOPA in the end, as well.
In general I think there is overall friendliness towards open access
and open licensing in this government, more so than we've seen in the
past, if not yet towards real copyright reform -- which as a matter of
law would take Congress as well as the White House to agree anyway.
-- phoebe