[pp.int.general] An answer to RMS' critique of the PP.SE political programme

[Edison Carter]

> As rms mentions at the end of his article, almost a year ago someone
> (namely myself) proposed to refine PPI proposal of reducing the
> copyright duration, for instance by adapting said duration to the
> licensing model chosen by the author/artist/developer. (I am referring
> to Jan 8 to Jan 12 discussion on this mailing list.)
> This suggestion seemed to met (some of) rms' expectations and has
> become the official stance of PPfr ever since, though PPse has not
> acknowledged it AFAIK. This idea doesn't seem incompatible with yours,
> btw.
>

Varable length copyright is not something I will ever agree with. I do not
care if it's based on media type, the nature of the content or it's
perceived usefulness, copyright held by a person vs. copyright held by a
corporation, or the licence used. I very strongly believe that all copyright
should expire a uniform number of years after the creation of a work. This
would make it so much easier to be sure that a work is no longer in
copyright before being able to make use of it in a commercial way. Otherwise
we have the problem of works still being locked away long beyond their
copyright because even though the copyright has expired, nobody can be sure
of it.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/attachments/20091207/e30a7fec/attachment-0001.htm>