Re: A proposal (was Re: "Against Intellectual Property")

From: Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:24:39 -0700 (PDT)

• Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]LAW.WHITTIER.EDU> wrote:

 > Only 25 percent of all works were ever renewed, which placed
> the vast majority of material in the public domain a
> few decades after it was published.

Actually, a 1960 Copyright Office survey found that only about 15% of all works were ever renewed. The exact number varied according to the type of work. For example, only 7% of all written works were renewed, while 74% of moviews were renewed.

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