Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress 299
AnElder writes "In his blog yesterday Lawrence Lessig said '...Congresswoman Lofgren (D-CA) and Congressman Doolittle (R-CA) have agreed to introduce the Public Domain Enhancement Act into Congress.' Today the Eldred Act website features two press releases announcing the act's introduction, as well as its immediate support by '...the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of Research Libraries...'" We ran a link to the petition supporting this Act a few weeks back.
Time to try my hand... (Score:5, Funny)
Link to the proposed bill is here. [eldred.cc]
(Not to be nasty or anything, but if you'd have clicked the link in the slashdot announcement you would have found this link immediately.)
I cant be the only one that thought of this (Score:3, Funny)
PDEA.
Does that make people who like this bill pdeaophiles?
Disney Inference (Score:5, Funny)
So now we know conclusively that Disney owns 2% of the copyrights between 55 and 75 years old.
By the time Congress is through with it... (Score:5, Funny)
coincidence? (Score:2, Funny)
A few weeks later it gets officially put on the table. Coincidence? I think not.
WAY TO GO
I, Sen Strom Thurmond am very much against (Score:2, Funny)
What?
Oh.
Well I'm against public domain too!
Re:I cant be the only one that thought of this (Score:5, Funny)
So much for slashdot's "no petitions" (Score:1, Funny)
HOAX! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Doolittle a valuable ally (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about home security cameras? (Score:3, Funny)
I just had a vision of public domain hit squads taking out copyright holders, for the purpose of cutting down their works' remaining copyright protection to that "plus 50 years".
When it finally passes this Act will totally ..... (Score:4, Funny)
That's just the way bills in Congress works: the result of the bill is always exactly opposite of what the title of the bill implies.