Re: Donation of copyrighted works (e.g., sound recordings) to public domain possible?

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jon Noring <jon[_at_]noring.name> wrote:

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As usual, you have great ideas. But, be realistic. How many estates, recording artists, and musicians can you find that will support your ideas? Probably less than 10%, which is not enough to force the U.S. Congress to liberate the sound recordings from destruction.

Moreover, they (estates, recording artists, and musicians) always have the option to dedicate their works to the public domain. But, that they chose not to do that tells a lot about their mentality. They will think that any attempt to force them to give up their works to the pubic domain is always harmful.

Sorry to be naysayer today.

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: 5,612

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Thu Aug 21 2003 - 19:40:44 GMT