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

[Michael Hart]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, James Davis wrote:

> 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.

Might I suggest asking for help from the Advertizing Departments
in various colleges and universities?

And perhaps other departments dealing with public relations, etc.


Michael