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http://www.soundcopyright.eu/ Please sign their petition.
You know me - you know that I think the public domain is the only way to go to preserve our works and our future.
The FSF has said it better than I could:
Yes! Strangely though, they continue:
No public domain recordings? I sincerely hope they mean "no copyrights have expired on any recordings". Either that or, f'rinstance, the US government can have been making no recordings.
But anyway, please, sign this petition. Fifty years is enough: commercial agencies make poor caretakers of our cultural heritage: they tend not to make copies available once they're no longer profitable.
You know me - you know that I think the public domain is the only way to go to preserve our works and our future.
The FSF has said it better than I could:
when this time is up, these works join Goethe, Hugo and Shakespeare in the proper place for all human culture – the public domain.
Yes! Strangely though, they continue:
In practice, because of repeated term extensions and the relatively short time in which sound recording techniques have been available, there are no public domain sound recordings.
No public domain recordings? I sincerely hope they mean "no copyrights have expired on any recordings". Either that or, f'rinstance, the US government can have been making no recordings.
But anyway, please, sign this petition. Fifty years is enough: commercial agencies make poor caretakers of our cultural heritage: they tend not to make copies available once they're no longer profitable.