[Upd-discuss] juristheque

Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron@gmail.com
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:48:02 +0100


By the way, I am beginning a repository of french public legal 
information : Codes, public domain books and manuals, etc.

http://www.juristheque.net

Michael Hart wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Happy Holidays!
> 
> Give eBooks!!!
> 
> Michael S. Hart
> Founder
> Project Gutenberg
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Yannick Delbecque - http://yannick.delbecque.org
>> Cogitateurs-Agitateurs - http://cogitateurs-agitateurs.org
>> FACIL, pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre -
>> http://facil.qc.ca
>>
>>
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