[Upd-discuss] Public Domain is a Crime

[Yannick Delbecque]

[2005-12-16 12:48, P.L.Hayes]
> "a film will still be copyrighted even if it is in the public domain"
> 
> "Please let me know what you think about this."

Apart from making me speculate about the incompetence of this person, 
this make me think about ways to promote explicitely the protection and 
widest possible usage of public domain material. 

One possible way to achive this could be to legally force anyone using 
public domain material in a new work or product to identify it 
explicitely as such. If DVDs were distributed beginning with a video 
notice like "This work is in the public domain" instead of the overly 
repeted message that it is criminal to share the movie, many people 
might start to think about using these work themselves.



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