Public Domain Day
p2pnet.net News:- New Year’s Day is an important day to celebrate because it’s also Public Domain Day, the critically important time of the year when the public domain grows.
Creativity always builds on the past, and access to that past is ensured only through a vibrantly growing public domain.
Wallace McLean has posted a list of only a few of the creators whose works have after long last entered into the public domain.
With so much material “out of print” (not commercially available) when technology could make that concept obsolete, and with so many more average citizens having the technology to more easily participate in culture, it’s far past time to be considering simplifying and reducing the term of copyright to more quickly enrich society.
Russell McOrmond – p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He's also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
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