Re: [ARSCLIST] Donation/purchase of the pre-1942 sound recordings (Wikipedia)

[Jon Noring <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Seubert wrote:

> I too have been following the discussion of how to spend the $100M.
> While I'd love to see it spent on freeing early sound recordings from 
> perpetual copyright, the smartest arguments I've read are to try to 
> change copyright law by spending the $100M on lawyers, lobbyists, and 
> funding the campaign of Orrin Hatch's next Senate opponent.

Laugh.

Well, since I live in Utah and have a pulse on the politics here, the
only way Orrin Hatch will go is either if he retires, or if the Good
Lord calls him to exaltation (a Mormon thing -- note, I am not LDS).

Jon Noring