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This talk of what rules, what duration or other criteria should attach to intellectual property rights is a pond of thin ice. 0 years? 70 years? lifetime + something? There is much discussion and thought that needs to proceed even contemplating such arbitrary numbers. For one thing, whose to say the...

First, I have sent my proposal for a Public Domain Foundation (see my other posts) to some institutions which may find it of interest, such as EFF and the Berkman Center (Berkley, Standford, Harvard, et al.). I still think it is the best direction to begin to challenge what is certain to be a growin...

Questions about how to proceed pose legal complexities which I don't think most of us are prepared to address. In the first place, do EU regulations even apply to content on a U.S. ISP? If someone in some remote kingdom decides that copyrights are to be extended indefinitely, does that mean every IS...

Carmar, I am entirely sympathetic with your concerns. It is indeed an outrage that we are being virtually blackmailed into fighting these bogus claims by would-be inheritors of the public domain; either that, or face extinction. Unfortunately, that's the way the game works; that's the way the world ...

I attempted to post a more detailed description of a proposal to create a Public Domain Foundation, but it seems to have been lost during the preview process. I propose this in hopes that contact made with offerings of legal assistance from Universities, private attorneys and the like will include a...

I must confess, I am not a musician or musicologist at all. In fact, I am just an aging poet. I came to IMSLP only a few days ago to renew a personal desire to add a little music to my life. Thirty years ago I played a little classical guitar and, in my childhood, an even smaller repetoire of piano ...