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Lessig's "Creative Commons" @ The FAA

Posted by Hemos on 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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  7. Speaking of Lessig... by securitas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... 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.

    1. Re:Speaking of Lessig... by doctorjohn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Calm down. Can't you see that the moderators can't be bothered with news from the tech sector, especially news that has any bearing at all on anything current and tech. Now, if you find a story about cloning chickens, they might run that...

  8. Re:Great idea, but what about security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't it be a lot easier if someone, say Jesus H. Ashcroft and company, printed a list of acceptible behavior (CONSUME, WATCH TV, BE SILENT) and made it a law that everyone had to turn in anyone they saw not following the rules?

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  10. Re:A good solution for copyright law too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  11. Re:Great idea, but what about security? by Ryu2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  12. News for Lawyers.. by reflective+recursion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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