Stuff I write...

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

The Eric Eldred Act
OK, I tend not to get political here, but I thought I'd add this. It's about copy right laws and how we are losing works in Public Domain. Why should you care? Well... read the site. But consider Disney, a company that fought hard to retain the current law that extends copy right by decades. Despite this, you have to wonder where they would be if the law was this way before. After all, what are Disney's big hits? The Little Meremad, Snow White, and others... all works they got from the public domain and remade into new classics. Where would those works be if some company still owned those works, decades after the actual author was gone?

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