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Wikipedia has a super handy page up today that will direct you to your local reps. Everyone should take five minutes and send them an email.
Indeed. This is a really bad bill. It does the whole "baby with the bathwater" thing.
I was actually going to post about how I don't think it will pass (I still don't think it will), but then I came across this:"Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/
That could be a problem. In the narrow sense, it seems OK, but it relies on the good will of congress, it seems to me, and congress has a tendency to, well, not always be a place of good will.
Wikipedia has a super handy page up today that will direct you to your local reps. Everyone should take five minutes and send them an email.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. This is a really bad bill. It does the whole "baby with the bathwater" thing.
ReplyDeleteI was actually going to post about how I don't think it will pass (I still don't think it will), but then I came across this:
ReplyDelete"Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works"
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/
That could be a problem. In the narrow sense, it seems OK, but it relies on the good will of congress, it seems to me, and congress has a tendency to, well, not always be a place of good will.
ReplyDelete