[nylug-talk] [Fwd: [!CrackMonkey!] The Eric Aldred Act]

[Ward Griffiths]

The publishers will do it even when the authors are dead.  Mox nix to me, I 
doubt I'll reach my 98th birthday even if such a bill passed this week.  
(Yeah, I turn 3x2^4 years old this Memorial Day, and several of you know I 
don't maintain a healthy diet nor would ever want to).

On Monday 19 May 2003 03:06 pm, Ron Guerin wrote:
> This is interesting, because I'm pretty sure they're completely wrong.
>
> 98%+ of the copyrights will have the maintenance fee paid, and less than
> 2% of the material will pass into the public domain.
>
> - Ron
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> From: Neale Pickett <neale at woozle.org>
> To: crackmonkey at crackmonkey.org
> Subject: [!CrackMonkey!] The Eric Aldred Act
> Date: 19 May 2003 10:11:35 -0700
>
> I know some of the crackmonkey denizens are big copyright buffs, so I
> thought I'd let you all know about this before your EFF newsletter does:
>
>   May 16, 2003 - We are close to getting a bill introduced to help right
>   the wrong of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This bill,
>   now titled "The Public Domain Enhancement Act," would require a
>   copyright owner, 50 years after a work is published, to pay a $1
>   maintenance fee. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright
>   continues. If the owner does not pay the fee, the work passes into the
>   public domain. We estimate under this bill, 98% of copyrighted works
>   would pass into the public domain in just 50 years. We are close, but
>   the lobbyists have already started the battle against this
>   bill. Please write your Representative and Senator, and ask them to be
>   the first to introduce this bill. Point them to this site, and ask
>   them to respond to your request. If we can just get this idea
>   introduced, then we can begin to build a movement around this obvious
>   compromise to the current extremism. But it will only happen if you do
>   something to get it going. Please help now.
>
> http://www.eldred.cc

-- 
Ward Griffiths					wdg3rd at comcast.net

He was caught in the old dilemma of the man with unintegrated values,
who eats meat but would rather somebody else did the butchering.
                        Robert A. Heinlein, _Citizen of the Galaxy_