[Upd-discuss] Public Domain is a Crime

[Michael Hart]

Given the number of claims of copyright in books obviously
in the public domain, it would obviously be wise to expect
the same thing with movies, music, etc.

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Michael S. Hart
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Yannick Delbecque wrote:

> [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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