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To: Joe NYC who wrote (218644)	12/6/2006 1:12:50 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Joe: In the open source world, peer recognition is sought after. Evidently it is enough to compensate programmers and designers for their work. Something to keep denoting who did it is all that needs to be done even after making the code itself public domain. The same for music writers and original performers. A song could still be in the public domain, yet performances by the original writers and performers would still be worth something, perhaps quite a bit. You could go through plenty of ways that would allow works to be in the public domain much sooner than the 50 years after death of the last contributor or 75, 90 and 120 years for a film to maintain copyright. The terms should be short. If an invention only gains 20 years, then copyright similarly should gain only 20 years. All changes should be to make it become public domain sooner and preserve the work in any case. A work can't be copyrighted, if the owner decides to destroy all remaining copies as has happened in the past. No crime could be charged to one who attempts preservation of the work in its pristine state. In fact, those who have the work in such a state would become the new copyright holder for the remaining term, if the current owner doesn't have a pristine copy. The work simply becomes public domain, if the preservation is done by a government, non profit, institution or government sponsored agency. I do allow for some rights to go longer. Attribution in many places should go longer. The creators of works should be recognized long after the work is in the public domain. Its that way in many scientific circles today. Copyright law as it currently stands is broken and should be cut back to its constitutional beginnings. The consistency of the terms between patent and copyright law would remove much of the debate and strife between the camps today. Pete