Re: The Era of Perpetual Copyright

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:32:32 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote: 

>

> As a result of the Eldred decision, it seems clear
> we've now entered upon an age of perpetual copyright
> protection. I have no doubt that in 2019 Disney and
> other major copyright owners will get Congress to
> extend pre-1978 copyrights yet again, and will cite
> the Eldred case as justification. ...

Only if we do nothing. It is time to boycott or reduce financial support for the copyrighted things and start to increase financial support for people, organizations, and companies that have great love for the public domain. For example, if you spend $1,000.00 a year on copyrighted books, movies, and songs, decrease the amount for copyrighted things by $100.00 every year and increase the amount for the public domain by the same amount.

The other but less effective way to counteract the effect of the decision is to write letters to Congress.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,825

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Sun Jan 19 2003 - 23:35:35 GMT

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