[P2P-F] copyright article for blog

[Michel Bauwens]

hi Franco,

can you write about this for our blog, http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=589

"there is a rapid drop of commercial availability after (or rather during?)
the first 10 years after a work has been published. This indicates that for
the majority of all publications copyright protection is way too long. The
fact that commercial availability of the surveyed works starts to increase
again after seven decades (when works start to appear in the Public Domain
in some jurisdictions, and are subsequently offered by print on demand
services based in these jurisdictions) also shows that the current,
excessive length of copyright protection is not only unnecessary but harmful
to society since it leads to reduced commercial availability of older works
and thus deprives the public of access to them.

If you combine this insight with recommendation of the Public Domain
Manifesto <http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/> you have a strong argument
for a drastic reduction of the term of protection."


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