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Oh, and why this matters...Oh, and why this matters...Posted May 24, 2005 15:33 UTC (Tue) by louie (subscriber, #3285)Parent article: Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced Forgot to add :) This bill is important for a lot of reasons; the most important, IMHO, is that it formally re-introduces in the findings the nearly dead idea that there is a valuable public commons that new material should be allowed to enter. This notion of a public commons is pretty central to what we as free software hackers do, and is a notion that directly contradicts Disney and co.'s notion that copyright should be perpetual, which is why they are lobbying against it- they've gone so far as to say that this is a bad idea, because forcing people to pay a dollar to renew their 50-year old copyright discriminates against poor people. So this is a bill worthy of your support, even if the notion of your software falling out of copyright in fifty years sounds so completely abstract as to be meaningless to you personally.
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Oh, and why this matters... Posted May 24, 2005 16:11 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Nope. Disney is perfectly happy with "public commons" idea. Definition of "public commons" being "something made by people who do not bother with infringiment lawsuits". Like this. Now the big question is: if someone can not pay $1 for protection how can he/she afford expensive lawsuit ? And without lawsuits copyright obviously does not work (see link above).
Oh, and why this matters... Posted May 24, 2005 23:33 UTC (Tue) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link] Exactly, otherwise, where would they get material for their new works? They'd have to steal other peoples ideas then! (Lion king not withstanding)
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