03 Dec 2004
Fight for Public Domain Goes On

This is a bulletin from the frontlines of the real culture war: and it has nothing to do with religion, abortion or gay marriage. It's a fight for nothing less than the long term survival and viability of the culture itself: and the good guys are currently losing.

Will history remember District Judge Maxine Chesney in a page like this?

Archivists who want to digitize 'orphan works' -- books, movies and films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright -- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance copyright law. By Katie Dean.

(link) [Wired News]

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