[rollei_list] Re: OT: Proposed UK "orphan works" bill affects us all.
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:26:19 -0500
At 01:17 AM 2/23/2010, Neil Purling wrote:
>That's the damn French at work isn't it. they have Draconian privacy
>laws don't they?
>Imagine if you had a shot of the crowd at a Cup Final or New Year in
>Trafalgar Square? The law is ludicrous!
>
>We should tell the EU mind their own business and get on with making
>their own laws & we will look after our own.
>As you can tell I hate the EU. Someone please hide the soap box
>better........................
I really am at a loss as to just what the problem might be in this.
First, we do have International Law, something
which has applied to the US ever since 1776.
Second, the EU has been ramping up the period of
copyright for decades, and the US keeps following
suit at their insistence. (No, the last revision
was NOT the "Mickey Mouse" copyright law: it was
the EU-demanded copyright law.)
These strictures have simply screwed a lot of
researches, who find it impossible to properly
cite long passages (more than "fair comment) for
works where the holder of the copyright is long
gone. So, an exemption for orphan works is needed and delightful.
Me? I want to go back to the old system, where
everything was public domain in what, 24 years? That seems very fair.
I used to drive folks on the Rollei List nuts
when I pointed out that I encouraged researchers
to cite as much as they wanted out of my two
books. It frightens me that these books will
probably be in copyright into the next century. Argh!
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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