>I also had the notion that the keys held by the copyright
>holder would be made public after the copyright expired and
>that the user would always be allowed a "fair use" access to
>the document.
What about the idea of <b>time released documents</b>,
to be created by mixing elements of authentic time
tracking with encryption. The time authentication may be too
difficult to add to this project but perhaps the clock project
could help
While there may be simmering issues with licensing archive
items, there could be an automated timed release of locked
documents.
Even if there are ways of creating limited encryptions keys
that could be used by permission, there could be a default
position of documents that are totally locked and will
unlock themselves in some defined period, perhaps 100
years. This gets into problems of time authentication,
but if some strong encryption were applied along with a
time authentication scheme, copyrights could be protected
while materials are preserved.
There could be a seeding of time release devices set to
differing dates. 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years, etc.
This could help to deal with the problem of potential dark
ages. (They may not censor what they can't read). Time
released documents could sit encrypted along side public
domain and "shareware" licenseable documents in the archive
leaving a range of approaches depending on how proprietary
and restricted the license is on a give work.
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