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Lessig's "Creative Commons" @ The FAA
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."
... will one of the moderators PLEASE look into the story queue and make a decision on the Lessig feature I submitted on 2002-01-08 15:54:26?
I'm sure this will get an off-topic but its driving me crazy whenever I log in to see that
'pending (1)' still there.
Yes all that is true, but I don't think you can really learn to fly by looking at the airplane blueprints alone, which is what the FAA is proposing to release! This has nothing to do with 9/11!
The flying and the designing of the plane are two DIFFERENT things.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Anyone else feel as if Slashdot is a little too oriented towards lawyers now? Whenever I visit /. the majority of the "news" is about copyright, trademark, or various other legal issues. I read this article and am scratching my head trying to find the cool or nerd aspect of it.
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