[Upd-discuss] a longer term strategy for promoting the public domain?

[James Davis]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Rufus Pollock - Open Knowledge Foundation wrote:

> > However, all things considered, I think that campaigning against the
> > proposal to extend copyright on musical recordings in Europe
> > is worth higher priority than this.
>
> I entirely agree. I take as an indirect answer to the question I posed: energy
> would be better used right now by campaigning about music copyright extensions
> than in writing to the UK patent office about bias on their website.

If only for practical reasons. We are at the moment relatively unknown
when compared with similar groups (IMHO). I've been making many useful and
interesting contacts just researching and following up news articles on
this issue. For a longer term strategy, on an issue that large, we'd need
a wider network of volunteers and more experience at directing our
resources on campaigns.

James

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