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