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Indeed, though I certainly don't begrudge people making money for republishing and reinvigorating materials in the public domain. However, how copyright policy affects the public domain is an important issue. It isn't something we should ignore, even if we are trying to reduce some of the tyrannies of current copyright law. Some of the copyright reform proposals out there might have unanticipated consequences with regard to profiting from the public domain. For example, see my LawMeme posting, Compulsory Licensing - The Public Domain Lottery?.
For some reason I always expected this. I know the sites in question are slightly creepy get-rich-quick spammer/ebook looking things, but as Lessig has fought for the same rights Walt Disney had when he plundered and remade public domain stories, I assumed the same thing would happen today if we had similar laws. The truly creative ones like Walt would reinvent old stories into great new works and for every Walt you'd have 9,999 hucksters slapping new book jackets on 200 year old novels.
Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Ernest Miller's blog postings can also be found @
1. Matt on June 23, 2004 06:36 PM writes...
For some reason I always expected this. I know the sites in question are slightly creepy get-rich-quick spammer/ebook looking things, but as Lessig has fought for the same rights Walt Disney had when he plundered and remade public domain stories, I assumed the same thing would happen today if we had similar laws. The truly creative ones like Walt would reinvent old stories into great new works and for every Walt you'd have 9,999 hucksters slapping new book jackets on 200 year old novels.
You gotta take the good with the bad.
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