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<< Preempting State Drivers Licensing | Main | Bush Cuts Aid to College Education >> June 12, 2003Copyright is Killing Old FilmsHow's this for a system. Absentee owners let their unique cultural property rot, while the law prevents other people from saving the property from destruction. This is the situation with old movies which are decaying, even as preservationists are preventing from restoring them and bringing them to the public. A group of movie archivists, preservationists and creators are lobbying Congress to save Orphan Films. You can see their media relase. This is an offshort of the effort by Lawrence Lessig and others involved in the Eldred Supreme Court case. Posted by Nathan at June 12, 2003 10:39 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsWell, thank Sonny Bono for that wretched bit of corporate pandering. After that, I was not sorry to see him go. This is a problem now and will get worse over the years although only fans of older films are affected currently. Posted by: mndean at June 12, 2003 10:04 PM Larry Lessig has put a petition drive in motion for a Public Domain Enhancement Act. This act would require holders of copyrighted works to pay $1 (yes, one dollar) annually after 50 years in order to maintain their copyright. This will insure that truly abandoned works, not just film, will fall into public domain after said 50 years while putting almost no burden on active holders of copyrighted works. Click here: and sign the petition now. Go to Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten's blog to read more just click here. Posted by: Barry Freed at June 16, 2003 03:22 AM pissing Posted by: som at August 24, 2004 06:39 AM Post a comment
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