[cc-community] What about Safe Creative?

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Apr 2 09:15:29 EDT 2008


Peter Brink wrote:
> Terry Hancock skrev:
>> Um. I guess that's okay. But doesn't your country have a national
>> copyright registry?
> 
> Copyright registers aren't that common in an international perspective. 
> In civil law countries a copyright has never had to be registered to be 
> considered valid, as it was in the past in the US.

I thought that might be the reason, but still... it seems like national
(or international) registries are a good idea.

Of course, *I* think we should go back to the mandatory registry process
and shorter copyrights, myself (if it isn't even worth your trouble to
register it, why should you get special monopoly rights at the expense
of the public domain?).

It's an interesting question, though -- if the US were to do what I
want, it would be violating international treaties by acting unilaterally.

Yet there is no way to conduct an international referendum to have the
world change over at once (setting aside for the moment the issue of
likelihood of such a referendum succeeding). It seems as if the process
of copyright extension is designed to be irreversible -- copyright
"reform" always seems to mean "extension", never "retraction". And yet,
at some point, we MUST retract it.

How will we do that?

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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