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Technology Liberation Front: Uncopyright Notice: (¢)

  • Steve R. · 1 year ago
    Great post. You may also be interest in CopyFraud by Jason Mazzone. He writes: "Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of
    Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s
    Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in
    everything in their collections. Vendors of microfilmed versions of historical newspapers
    assert copyright ownership. These false copyright claims, which are often
    accompanied by threatened litigation for reproducing a work without the “owner’s”
    permission, result in users seeking licenses and paying fees to reproduce works that
    are free for everyone to use."
  • Tom W. Bell · 1 year ago
    Good source! Thanks, Steve R.
  • Charles · 1 year ago
    Doesn't your suggestion simply describe a subset of offerings from groups such as Creative Commons? Or are you suggesting that placing the (¢) be imposed by law for works in the public domain? If not and while I appreciate the need for something simpler than the creative commons marks (although the text cc-by-sa can also be used, which isn't that difficult to type especially considering the placement of ¢), I would think that most of the effort lays in getting creators aware of copyright, copyright law and the benefits of giving up certain rights for certain rights at certain points in your career.
  • Tom W. Bell · 1 year ago
    Charles: I support Creative Commons, both morally and financially. But it aims for the most part at using copyright law in certain ways. Only as something of an aside does it mention the option of putting a work in the public domain, and it does not make it especially easy to so mark a work. I wouldn't want to require (¢) marking, but I do think we should adopt and use it when appropriate. CC does good work, but I think we need to promote uncopyrighting as well as creative copyrighting.