Public Domain, Body Count Revisited
Reclaim the Public Domain
Every year, a large number of works remain under copyright protection even though they have no commercial value. Additionally, due to their copyright, many of these works are not being preserved or archived in any form. This is ridiculous.
Lawrence Lessig has a solution:
One solution in particular that we ask Congress to consider is the Public Domain Enhancement Act. See http://eldred.cc. 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.
If this resonates with you, please consider signing the petition and passing the word.
Iraq Body Count Revisited
Min and max, respectively:
Why did we go to war with Iraq again? Oh, because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Right.
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