[cc-community] Re: cc-community Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2
Karen Coyle
kcoyle at kcoyle.net
Wed Feb 2 14:02:53 EST 2005
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:31:45 +0000
From: Rob Myers <robmyers at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [cc-community] The tragedy of the creative commons (was
Re:public domain question)
To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
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On Wednesday, February 02, 2005, at 02:45PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
>>Anything public domain always remains public domain.
>
>
Not the works that were public domain until the Sonny Bono act.
No, the act did not remove any works from the public domain; it made it
so that works that were about to go into the public domain would not get
to do so, and therefore imposed a kind of "moratorium" on public domain
that will last about 20 years.
ref: http://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/sonybono.htm
And not for material held only in an institution that licenses
access to that material (paintings are my area of concern there).
This is not a matter of public domain, it's a matter of licensing and
access to the physical objects. Very important not to confuse this with
copyright law, because it takes a different approach to argue against
it. ;-)
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