Re: pallante - comprehensive review

Sorry Richard and all,

I'd put it with something else but got interrupted here. This is it 
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/next_great_copyright_act.pdf

Joseph Harris

On 24/03/2013 13:50, Richard Seltzer wrote:
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> I don't see a link here. Where can I read the document?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Richard Seltzer
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> Subject: [ebook-community] pallante - comprehensive review
>
> I have completely revised my first knee-jerk reaction to this speech
> (precursor to evidence to Congress) by Maria Pallante: THE NEXT GREAT
> COPYRIGHT ACT Twenty-Sixth Horace S. Manges Lecture by Maria A. Pallante .
>
> I now see she has an excellent grasp of the issues, an impressively 
> balanced
> view, and a comprehensive understanding of the needs of new 
> legislation. The
> sense of co-ordinated thinking comes strongly across.
> The footnotes and her speech provide something close to a course in the
> past, present and potential future of copyright in the US.
>
> For me, as a non-American, there is something else. She may be the only
> person anywhere with the stature to influence the next big move in
> copyright; the copyright of the 21st century. Not everything would be
> relevant to the rest of the world, but in the main I see a person who 
> could
> lead a great leap of thinking for copyright in the digital age. A world
> leader in how to do it.
>
> Take 20 minutes and read this. If you see an area you want to 
> influence send
> in well thought views. The footnotes point to almost any information you
> might need.
>
> As a teaser I put below three quotations she has used and two of her own
> words. Read it and think about it. This is your future.
>
> Joseph Harris
>
> "the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of free
> expression."65
>
> "copyright law reads like the tax code, and there are sections that are
> incomprehensible to most people and difficult to me."111
>
> "[t]he immediate effect of our copyright law is to secure a fair 
> return for
> an 'author's' creative labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this 
> incentive, to
> stimulate artistic creativity for the general public good."117
>
> The expertise of the Office is reflected in countless contributions 
> over the
> last hundred years, including official studies, congressional hearings,
> treaty negotiations, trade agreements, policy recommendations, and legal
> interpretations, not to mention in the Copyright Act and its legislative
> history and in opinions of the courts.
>
> In closing, I would like to encourage Congress not only to think about
> copyright law but to think big. The next great copyright act is as 
> exciting
> as it is possible. Most importantly, it is a matter of public interest.
>



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