Re: Copyright/everincreasing times

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

> Hello. It looks nothing can be done for the everincreasing
> copyright protection times. People should look for alternatives
> where authors/publishers give up the rights.
>
>  -A license a la GPL which states that this print can be
>   handled as public domain book after 20-50 years
>
> If existing publishers does not want make this kind of agreements,
> then I'm sure new publishers would be willing to go for that
> kind of arrangement.
>
>  -Existing publishers could give up rights to those thousands
>   of books which are out of print and for which it does not make
>   sense to reprint, digitize and sell
>
> Well, if nobody writes such a license or asks publishers to give
> up rights, we should stop whining.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juhana

Is anyone looking into the way O'Reilly Publishing is doing theirs?

Are any of their books in our pipeline already?


Thanks!!!

So nice to hear from you!

Michael S. Hart
<[email protected]>
Project Gutenberg
Principal Instigator
"*Internet User ~#100*"


As of June 5:

You can now download ~8155 free eBooks from Project Gutenberg at:

http://gutenberg.net

That means there are ~1845- left to go until we get to #10,000!

Currently we have ~187 days to go to December 10, 2003,
a decade since eBook #100, and are averaging 9 per day,
so we obviously need to do just one more book per day
to average the 10 per day needed to make that goal. . . .


Can you help us by adding just ONE???


Next week, hopefully about 70 more!



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