seems klunky, but it is getting there.
I suggest we shorten copyright and build digital institutions, but that
would be going against some very big property holders and their lobbyists.
-brewster
At 03:59 PM 3/18/98 -0800, Stewart Brand wrote:
>Here's an idea forwarded from Jaron Lanier... --SB
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>>1) A thought: Copyrighted material currently passes through two gross
>>phases of life; initially proprietary and eventually public domain. It
>>might be good to create a third which benefits archivists. If data is kept
>>alive in the long term, those who keep it alive should be able to benefit
>>in some way. This would create incentives for speculative commercial
>>archivists. There needs to be a concept of "digital stewards' rights"
>>rather like squatters rights, in that such rights would accrue
>>automatically. If well designed, a "stewards' rights" law would give
>>incentives for the preservation of the widest variety of bits. To benefit,
>>a steward would have to show that the bits would have died without
>>intervention- and all holders of copies of the bits would have to split
>>proceeds, creating incentives for divergence.
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>>2) Kodak claims to have a gold reflective layer CD that lasts for
>>centuries in accelerated aging tests. I will make the connection between
>>the folks at Kodak and T&B
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