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

Erik Masson, burn in hell!

[Anonymous Coward]

You lying sack of shit! You said the Indigo Magic Desktop would be released last week. WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?

This is bullshit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lofgren and Doolittle are pro-H1-B, pro
big business chumps. This is window dressing
at it's worst. All it's doing is creating
a database to help people figure out if something
is in the public domain. It's make work
for librarians. BFD. Google could do this for
free. It does not roll back the outrageous copyright laws.

California residents should dump
these bums in the next election.

Troll?

[Anonymous Coward]

Calling a spade a spade is a troll?
Moderators suck.

wtf

[Anonymous Coward]

this is not a troll, but what does this have to do with lunix and stuff for nerds? what the hell do i care about intelectual property and copyright?

Re:

[rmohr02]

Don't just sit back and hope this law passes. Write to your Congressman and your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor, or, failing that, at least to vote for it.

MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously. its obviously a joke, and it gets modded Flamebait... wtf is up with the crappy moderation these days?

A little help?

[Jerk City Troll]

We have all kinds of sites that offer an easy avenue for opposition to write their representatives, telling them to not do something.

Is there a web site for this particular issue with a pre-(well)-written letter encouraging our representatives to support this?

Re:We need a few congressmen in our pocket

[nexex]

the Republicans are ruled by an evangelical/neocon cabal of realpolitik nazis (no trolling intended).

What would call that, exactly? Libel perhaps? Oh yes, Republicans are being controlled through some ancient secret society who read out of the Necronomicon, ruling the country in secret.

evangelical/neocon? You just contradicted yourself! So which is it?

But this is all silly. Of course, we didn't really land on the Moon, it was staged. The Philadelphia experiment really happened. Not to mention that Pres. Bush actually KNOWS where bin Laden is! Please excuse me, I have to go check for black helicopters monitoring my every move.