Public Domain Enhancement Act
Public Domain Enhancement Act
Posted Jun 11, 2005 1:29 UTC (Sat) by nealmcb (guest, #20740)In reply to: The CDT takes on infringement by ekj
Parent article: The CDT takes on infringement
"In reality the goal (as stated in the constitution) is to stimulate the creation of new works, copyright is just one way of acomplishing that. To the extent it does not contribute to this goal it is not even constitutional."
Very well stated. As US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote:
http://www.hymn-project.org/
"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of
authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
As LWN wrote just a few weeks ago (http://lwn.net/Articles/137250/),
this is the time to support HR 2408, the Public Domain Enhancement Act,
"This law would require that owners of copyrighted works file a registration form and pay a $1 fee to keep the copyright in force after the first 50 years. Works which, after 50 years, have been abandoned will enter the public domain."