Lessig's "Creative Commons" @ The FAA

Posted by Hemos on Thursday March 7, 2002 @11:45AM from the flying-machines-scattered-on-the-ground dept.

tramm writes "The FAA, working with the EAA have put together a proposal to release old type certificates and blueprints once the copyright holders no longer exist. Sort of like Abandonware for airplanes. This very closely resembles Lawrence Lessig's idea of a creative commons, into which source code would be escrowed. Once the copyright expired or became abandonded, the sources would be released. "This set of legal guidelines will help the FAA develop a set of procedures to legally release what had previously been unnecessarily protected as proprietary data.". Hopefully the Copyright office will take note of the success here, as well as the Supreme Court's hearing of Eldred v Reno."

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Re:Start with NASA by NiceGeek · 2002-03-07 12:28 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Our way of life is pretty much shot to hell right now if YOU hadn't noticed. Spare me your concerns about someone getting ahold of some ancient NASA docs.
Yep mods it's a flame...go for it.