!@!Re: [Upd-discuss] a longer term strategy for promoting the public domain?

[Lars Aronsson]

Michael Hart wrote:
> I would write a letter to every government in the entire world,
> asking if there is a home for shorter copyrights to counteract
> the longer copyrights being imposed by WIPO et al on the rest
> of the world. . .perhaps suggesting a home for the public domain.

Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant here.  Could you explain 
again what the question to those governments would be?


I think that we could do more digging into the 1923-1953 era.  Some
authors who died in this period might have noone left to defend their
extended copyrights, which means we could get away with digitizing
their works before those 70 years have passed.  This is on the edge of
taking a risk, which I know PG's experts would advise against.  

Still, there is more that can be done on the safe side of the risk.  
For example, we could coordinate efforts to write bios for those
near-70 authors on Wikipedia, so people can see more clearly what they
are missing because of the life+70 rule.

Some time ago (last year?) there was some talk about compiling a 
global who-died-when list.  Did anything come from that?


Lars Aronsson.
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