A "Safe Harbour" provision for works more than 75 years old where the life dates of the authors are not known
No extensions of copyright durations
Explicit assignment to the Public Domain of those photographs that were in the Public Domain in 1997
75 year copyright for works with more than 15 authors
Enhanced protection of the Public Domain
The Copyright Act be renamed the Copyright and Public Domain Act
Explicit recognition of the Public Domain
The creation of a Public Domain Commissioner
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/04/2009 01:13:00 PM.
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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
