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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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  1. Lessig? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a totally gay last name. Is he a lesbian? Or a fag?

  2. Re:not quite the same thing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who taught you that 'lose' was spelled L-O-O-S-E?

    Wrong wrong WRONG!

  3. Re:Fuck all the American infidels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    look, a troll's resume.
    hi mark, i like your pics, you id0t.

  4. Re:Fuck all the American infidels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is that the best you could come up with?

    Pig fucker, go find a young boy to sodomize. Its
    written into your religion, isn't it...

    btw, After you die, I will watch with glee as
    they bury you in a hole with that pig.

  5. Re:What about Windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And we have to face it, Windows is what most people use, if it were open source it could be made much stabler then it is
    now

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    Thank you that is all.