[pp.int.general] Stallman's escrow for works other than software source code

[Felipe Sanches]

no, Brazilian copyright law also covers life+70.

I have just mentioned 2020 (10 years after release in 2010) due to the
pirate party copyright reform proposal of 5-to-10 years duration (10 years
in my TimBurton's "Alice in Wonderland" hypotethical example).

PS: A brazillian copyright reform has been announced by our Culture ministry
and will likely happen in 2009/2010. It seems that we will have public
hearings beginning next month.
Some of our civil society claims will probably be:

* reducing copyright duration to Berns requirements: life+50.
* allowing full private copying. Current law (1998) allows only private
copying of brief sections (they do not define how much is a brief section.
it is totally subjective). Pior-98 copyright law allowed full private copy.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Glenn Kerbein <
glenn.kerbein at pirate-party.us> wrote:

> Twenty years? Consider your country lucky.
> In the states, it's life of the author + 70 years. When "Alice In
> Wonderland" (the modern film) enters the public domain, it will be
> sometime next century. I guess 2119, assuming that everyone in the film
> dies in 2049.
>
> Felipe Sanches wrote:
> > I agree with Richard Stallman when he talks about the duality of
> > computer software (compiled binaries versus source code) and its
> > problematic treatment in copyright laws: we need to guarantee public
> > domain effectiveness for software. We cant simply allow its source code
> > to be forever kept as secret while users are subjected to proprietary
> > binaries (which are hardly modifiable in a pratical manner) even after
> > the binaries have fallen into the public domain. An escrow proposal was
> > made by rms but we are still unsure about what would be the best
> > approach to solve that issue.
> >
> > I'd like to raise awareness to a similar duality: multimedia
> > productions. Wouldnt it make sense for us to seek guarantees that
> > production files will be available when a movie falls into public
> > domain? It would certainly make derivative creative works easier to
> > produce without the need of recreating the whole thing from scratch.
> >
> > Think about the open movies we've seen recently: i. e. "Elephants
> > Dream", or "Big Buck Bunny".
> > The creators of these movies have voluntarily released their "source
> > code". Wouldn't we want to have similar access to the production files
> > of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" in 2020, ten years after the
> > release of the movie? Or would we be satisfied with solely a legalized
> > high definition public domain copy of it in 2020?
> >
> > Felipe "Juca" Sanches
> > Inkscape.org developer / FSF member / Brazilian Pirate Party
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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