Lawrence Lessig and company are proposing something
called the "Creative Commons", providing both new
types of copyright licenses and a "conservancy"
for placement of intellectual property still under
copyright but whose owners no longer find economically
useful. Something scholarly authors, libraries and publishers
should perhaps look into?
See:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL
Arthur
Received on Tue Feb 12 2002 - 04:08:03 GMT