<div dir="ltr">This study really makes some interesting points, e.g.:<br><br>"More specifically, our study suggests that massive social harm was<br>done by the most recent copyright term extension that has prevented<br>millions of works from falling into the public domain since 1998." p. 29<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-05 18:27 GMT+01:00 Stéphane Coillet-Matillon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephane.coillet@mail.wikimedia.ch" target="_blank">stephane.coillet@mail.wikimedia.ch</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><b>tl;dr: </b>public domain works used as illustrations increase traffic and would cost about $250 millions a year to the project had they been copyrighted.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2560572" target="_blank">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2560572</a><br></div></div>
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