Roger Luethi wrote:
It is not so much about copyright reform as it is
about investing money
rather than spending it, and this is a rare opportunity to talk about that.
Another example, unrelated to copyright reform: Wikipedia editors need
access to primary sources, particularly academic journals. The fate of
current ventures in Open Access journals largely determines whether most
potential Wikipedia editors will have easy access to the sources they need
in the years to come, and funding for these journals (or lack thereof) will
be a major factor.
Right. There are journal archives around with stuff going back hundreds
of years, but they claim copyright on all their materials; if we could
free that which already qualifies for PD-old, it would be a major step
in the right direction.
Being copyright is not just a simple matter of claiming copyright. The
old stuff is already free; it doesn't need any more freeing. The law
decides, not the claimants. If it qualifies just use it.
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