[cc-community] Chilean Library of Congress license CC

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Sun Jan 28 08:16:30 EST 2007


On Saturday 27 January 2007 06:16 pm, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Ok, I'll think more ambitiously: if we could get the content that the US
> > Library of Congress houses made by non-US government entities under a CC
> > license or into the public domain, that is under too restrictive
> > rules :)
>
> That would be just about everything.
>
> Inclusion in the Library of Congress is automatic for all works with a
> registered copyright in the US (i.e. submitting a copy is part of the
> registration process).
>
> Since 1978 though, registration has not been necessary to claim
> copyright status, so there are many unregistered works today.
>
> Inducing all of those works to be under CC licenses would be a strong
> incentive to *not* register, which would be BAD.

I think a better ploy might be for all unregistered works to be copyleft or at 
least all unmarked works. (unmarked = no copyright notice)

Plus, the copyright office shold have to make public on the net a list of all 
works ever registered and all that have passed into the public domain. And 
more ambitiously, digitize and make available for download, all works that 
have passed into the public domain.
>
> Terry

all the best,

drew
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