Ever wonder about the public domain?
Friday, January 1st, 2010Welcome to 2010! Happy New Year to everyone–let’s hope for a better year in 2010: a year of peace, happiness, friendships and family. A new year, a new decade (according to some). Today, January 1st, is traditionally Public Domain Day…but apparently the Europeans have a lot to celebrate today while we Americans have nothing at all to celebrate. Due to overweening copyright laws, no books, music or movies will see their copyright expire and be released to the public domain here in the USA today (or for the next 9 years!), thus further hampering artistic expression and personal creativity. Read a short treatise about the dismal state of the US public domain here!
Sounds like a good time for a contribution to Creative Commons!
