Copyright

Reclaim the Public Domain

Please take a moment to sign this online petition to support the Eldred Act to reclaim the Public Domain.

The petition urges Congress to reign in the copyright laws, to give 98% of the commercially unviable works back to the Public Domain, and to support the Public Domain Enhancement Act:

This statute would require American copyright owners to pay a very low fee (for example, $1) fifty years after a copyrighted work was published. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright will continue for whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright is not worth even $1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public domain.

Its the right thing to do if you don't want big media to get ever more powerful.

Posted by Mayhem at June 9, 2003 10:00 AM