SC - A different kind of historical recreation

[david friedman]

At 6:51 PM -0500 11/9/99, LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

>A recent proposal of mine sent to my Congressman suggested that the copyright
>laws be changed to place a work in public domain if the copyright holder did
>not maintain a reprint of the work every 10 years. Or to allow for the
>copying of any work that was listed as 'Out of Print' with the work being
>officially designated as abandoned by the original copyright owner


To a very limited degree, this is already the case. There is a "fair 
use" exception written into the copyright act. It's definition is 
quite fuzzy--a list of criteria, with no rules for weighting them or 
deciding whether something does or does not make it. But one of the 
criteria is the effect of the copying on the revenues of the 
copyright holder, or something similar. So copying of something that 
is out of print is more likely to count as fair use than copying of 
something in print--although actually publishing a complete copy of 
an out of print book would, I am sure, exceed the fair use limits.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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