[Commons-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 20:03:01 UTC 2006

On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:52 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 15/10/06, W. Guy Finley <wgfinley at dynascope.com> wrote:
>
>> We should never stop looking for the free sources of images that we
>> can obtain.  But there are a whole slew of historical photographs
>> owned by these media houses we do not have access to and that's what
>> I was getting at.
>
>
> How much money would it take to shorten US copyright? Everything else
> is just picking at the edges of the problem.
>
>
> - d.
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David, I respect your thought on this but this is a pipe dream no  
hundred million can fulfill.  Disney sneezes $100 mil and they have  
fought for copyright extension extensively.  Getting US copyright law  
changed requires a political movement, and a few hundred legislators  
growing a background to corporate graft, not necessarily money.

--Guy