The Copyright Follies!

[JackLuis]

While I have no dog in the fight I thought this was another view of the issues.

Reforming Copyright Is Possible
And it's the only way to create a national digital library

The tantalizing vision of universal access to the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity seemed close to fulfillment in 2008, when Google announced the settlement of a class-action lawsuit charging that its Google Book Search project infringed copyright by scanning in-copyright books from major research-library collections. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, later asserted that the settlement was a big win for everyone because it would create a "library to last forever."

The DRM, other rights and collective licensing? I'm supposing that someone will have to hold the deposits, until the correct rights holder claims them, so a large pool of unclaimed money will be tempting to siphon off.

 

[sr71plt]

If they're willing to classify the porn I write as "the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity," I just might be happy to give them a free peek at it.