Some may find this chart very interesting:
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/publicdomainpostcard.php
The chart shows how many public domain works could exist if several copyright laws were not passed at first place.
In order to appease those who require attribution for everything, I got the above URL from copyfight.org that got it from Lessig's blog (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/).
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
http://www.boycottcopyright.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: 5,682
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 19:17:42 GMT
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