John Bloom, Right and Wrong: The Copy-Right Infringement, National Review Online, November 22. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was "one of the most anti-American acts of the last century." How important is the timely passage of creative works into the public domain? "Tools for expanding civilization...are a limited commodity. They're resident in the books of Hemingway and Faulkner, the movies of Disney and Capra, and the songs of Kern and Berlin. Give 'em up. We need 'em. We've got work to do. It's not just the right thing to do. It's a right." (PS: More evidence that the right and left can agree on these issues.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/25/2002 11:42:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
