hi Franco,<br><br>can you write about this for our blog, <a href="http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=589">http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=589</a><br><br>"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.
<p>If you combine this insight with recommendation of the <a href="http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/">Public Domain Manifesto</a>
you have a strong argument for a drastic reduction of the term of
protection."</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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