Re: Copyright/everincreasing times

Hello. No I don't believe Disney ever gives anything in to public domain
volunteerly. Afterall, they needed the latest copyright act so that
the Disney characters will not go to public domain. They changed the
past and that is what bugs me most. Many authors back at then could
have choosen different license if they had known that new copyright laws
changes the their work from public domain back to under copyright
protection, for example.

The copyright law is also biased toward publishers (or something sucks):
there are many out-of-print books, but their authors and descendants
cannot do nothing if publisher chooses not to print the books.
Would it be fair that a copyright law requires that at least 2000 copies
are printed yearly? Otherwise, the books would go to public domain.
That could be another tradeoff between public and publishers.
(A request to pay $1 per 50 years may not have an effect at all as it
is a pocket money. As a publisher I would pay it in any case even the
works would not have any value for me.)

It is those forgotten public domain books and works for which
we should ask publishers and authors to drop them to public domain.
Then we would save their efforts in making the works usable again.

Where I could get a list of those books/works not yet in public domain?
I'm afraid our libraries do not have many books published between
1930-1960 and I cannot check them from shelves.

OK. Publishers could choose to digitize the books theirself and
sell them cheaply or not that cheaply.

I will check that petition.

Best regards,

Juhana

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