Comments on: Not quite dead yet: Orphan Works https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3616 2002-2015 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:22:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: a graphic artist https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3616#comment-25569 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:22:04 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/not_quite_dead_yet_orphan_work.html#comment-25569 Insanely bad is a perfect description of what congress is proposing. In just a few paragraphs in your NY Times article you laid out a great solution to the problem and it wouldn’t be hard. Now, how do we make them listen to you and fast!

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By: Lorne https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3616#comment-25568 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:23:09 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/not_quite_dead_yet_orphan_work.html#comment-25568 I also would be interested to hear why you don’t approve of the orphan works bills.

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By: Henry Emrich https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3616#comment-25567 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:09:25 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/not_quite_dead_yet_orphan_work.html#comment-25567 Doc:
Why are you against this? WAY better than the existing Copyright laws.
Oh wait, you’re cool with DRM, and really blew it on the “Eldred” thing.

This isn’t a “diss”: your book “Free Culture” woke me up to these issues. The problem is, you’ve capitulated at every turn. No wonder (in your own words) you couldn’t get the Supreme court to see why reigning in copyright terms was “important”.

Your pet project (Creative commons) explicitly depends on copyright, so CC-licencensees understandably have little — if any — advantage if their stuff goes Public Domain. If the copyright term ends, THEY can no longer enforce the type of controls they want over it (all of that “noncommercial, no-derivs” type stuff in the various deeds.)

Honestly, Doc: I thought that “harmful to minors” thing was awful, but you just continue to dissapoint.

Is this the type of thing we can expect if you get to Congress?

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By: David desJardins https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3616#comment-25566 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:14:26 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/not_quite_dead_yet_orphan_work.html#comment-25566 It seems a big improvement over existing law. OK, you want to hold out for something you like better. But “insanely bad” is way over the top.

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