Fwd: [gmonthly] A Byte About Eldred v Ashcroft

Nov. 21, 2002

Type: discussion

>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:05:26 -0500 (EST)
>From: Michael Hart <[email protected]>
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>If the New York Times' estimates of 7 years for information doubling
>may be considered at all correct, then this is what will happen in a
>United States under the new copyright law, EVEN IF we considered 100
>percent of current information now be entered into the Public Domain
>as an incentive to let this law stand:
>
> 0 years 1/1 of today's information in the Public Domain 100% !!!
> 7 years 1/2 of today's information in the Public Domain 50%
>14 years 1/4 of today's information in the Public Domain 25%
>21 years 1/8 of today's information in the Public Domain 12.5%
>28 years 1/16 of today's information in the Public Domain 6.25%
>35 years 1/32 of today's information in the Public Domain 3.125%
>42 years 1/64 of today's information in the Public Domain 1.5625%
>49 years 1/128 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.78125%
>56 years 1/256 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.390625%
>63 years 1/512 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.1953125%
>70 years 1/1024 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.09765625%
>77 years 1/2048 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.048828125%
>84 years 1/4096 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.0244140625%
>91 years 1/8192 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.01220703125%
>98 years 1/16384 of today's information in the Public Domain 0.006103515625%
>Plus a small fraction if any of this year's copyrights are allowed to expire.
>
>Obviously the goal is to have virtually no public domain left at all. . . .
>
>Of course, there are people who will try to make this very NOT obvious!
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>Michael S. Hart
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