DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:28AM from the oh-they're-only-tax-dollars dept.

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "Looks like the copyright cartel have raided the public domain yet again — the US DoD has signed an exclusive contract with T3 Media to digitize their media archive in exchange for T3 having complete licensing control for 10 years. Considering that all output from the US government is, by law, ineligible for copyright, this deal seems borderline illegal at best. To make matters worse, it appears that there is no provision to make the digitized content freely accessible after the 10 years are up — which means we risk having all that content disappear into T3."

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Re:Legality vs Enforceability by hawkinspeter · 2013-12-21 05:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Are ninjas the next line of defense?

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Of course, it's very obvious why this is happening by haruchai · 2013-12-21 06:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's because Obama's the most radical, socialist president ever.

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