Re: [ARSCLIST] the public Domain

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 1/21/2006 8:10:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ericj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Finally, where older recordings are not available simply because they are
not commercially viable, that doesn't really benefit anyone - the public
can't buy it, and neither the record labels nor the musicians profit from
their music.  So who is paying the price?
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Why was copyright registration and renewal dropped?  It seems like a small 
price to pay to separate the valued property from the material no one wants to 
maintain in print.

I see no problem with Disney keeping it's property for 1000 years as long as 
they regularly make a positive move to claim it, as long as the vast bulk of 
material that is laying around unclaimed in archives is available to the 
public.  Even real property (land) reverts to the public after a period of 
abandonment by failure to pay taxes.

Mike Csontos