Making ConnectionsOccasional thoughts on knowledge, community, collaboration, usability and the webReclaiming the public domain- June 3, 2003 Sign up now to support Lawrence Lessig's petition to reclaim the public domain: "We have launched a petition to build support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. That act would require American copyright holders to pay $1 fifty years after a work was published. If they pay the $1, the copyright continues. If they don&146;t, the work passes into the public domain. Historical estimates would suggest 98% of works would pass into the pubilc domain after 50 years. The Act would do a great deal...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118812/2003/06/03.html#a82 |