Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress

AnElder writes "In his blog yesterday Lawrence Lessig said '...Congresswoman Lofgren (D-CA) and Congressman Doolittle (R-CA) have agreed to introduce the Public Domain Enhancement Act into Congress.' Today the Eldred Act website features two press releases announcing the act's introduction, as well as its immediate support by '...the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of Research Libraries...'" We ran a link to the petition supporting this Act a few weeks back.

Comments

Time to try my hand...

[cliffiecee]

At really obvious Karma Whoring.

Link to the proposed bill is here.

(Not to be nasty or anything, but if you'd have clicked the link in the slashdot announcement you would have found this link immediately.)

I cant be the only one that thought of this

[lobsterGun]

Public Domain Enhancement Act

PDEA.

Does that make people who like this bill pdeaophiles?

Re:I cant be the only one that thought of this

[Guppy06]

No no, you're confusing them with the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes again.

Disney Inference

[Shadow Wrought]

Supreme Court Justice Breyer found that only about 2% of copyrights between 55 and 75 years old retain commercial value.

So now we know conclusively that Disney owns 2% of the copyrights between 55 and 75 years old.

By the time Congress is through with it...

[twifkak]

It'll be "Copyright will last for 5 months. After that expires, the author must pay $50,000 to renew it, for another 150 years, or eternally, whichever's longer."

coincidence?

[akaina]

" We ran a link to the petition supporting this Act a few weeks back. "

A few weeks later it gets officially put on the table. Coincidence? I think not.

WAY TO GO /.'ers!!!!!!!!!!!

I, Sen Strom Thurmond am very much against

[Anonymous Coward]

any policy that advocates pubic domination!

What?

Oh.

Well I'm against public domain too!

So much for slashdot's "no petitions"

[Anonymous Coward]

the logs

[21:11:50] <CmdrTaco> I no longer hold any value in a petition.
[21:11:54] <hemos> But, yeah, petitions stories have no valuye.
[21:11:56] <hemos> None.
[21:12:00] <CmdrTaco> Web petitions are stupid. I delete them all.
[21:12:14] <hemos> They have no meaning to a company/organization/political party.

?

HOAX!

[cybercuzco]

Its gotta be a hoax, I mean come on congressman doolittle? Isnt that implied by the first title? Next thing youll tell me theres a Senator Brownback. ;-)

Re:Doolittle a valuable ally

[SphynxSR]

I understand Disney is suing him because of his last name. They also stopped him from becoming a doctor, a vet.

Re:What about home security cameras?

[Reziac]

"Berne Treaty limit is life of the author plus 50 years."

I just had a vision of public domain hit squads taking out copyright holders, for the purpose of cutting down their works' remaining copyright protection to that "plus 50 years".

When it finally passes this Act will totally .....

[Jerry]

eliminate free public access to any works previously in the "Public" domain, and minimize the inclusion of any future works in that venue.

That's just the way bills in Congress works: the result of the bill is always exactly opposite of what the title of the bill implies.