Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years

tcd004 writes "Lawrence Lessig, in an article on the Foreign Policy site, predicts that the public domain will die a slow death at the hands of anti-piracy efforts. From the article: 'The danger remains invisible to most, hidden by the zeal of a war on piracy. And that is how the public domain may die a quiet death, extinguished by self-righteous extremism, long before many even recognize it is gone.'"

I foresee a crisis at Disney

[Cronopios]

Does it mean that Disney will have to actually come up with new stories instead of ripping off Grimm brothers et al?

Re:Spell check please

[CHESTER COPPERPOT]

Public 'domian'?

No. It's spelled correctly. The /. editors forgot to add the sinister gregorian monk music and demon guide dogs and crows.

Re:So every single thought should be public domain

[ArsonSmith]

It's being done and it's called bloging.

5/17 5:11pm "My cat rolled over on it's back again today"

5/17 5:15pm "I feed my cat and he liked it"

5/17 5:23pm "That voice in my head telling me to kill my cat and eat it is getting harder to resist"

Re:Going to die?

[Anonymous Coward]

"An author can't do anything to prevent his heirs from relicensing his work."

Not having offspring may be an option.

Oh wait this is /. - not having offspring is compulsory.

Re:Going to die?

[Martin Blank]

You've got a lot of courage showing up here, Mr. Valenti.

Re:Going to die?

[Red Alastor]

And the GPL is enormous. For stuff like web scripts, it is overkill ..... I don't like to finish eating my dinner before someone else has even started theirs, and I don't like the licence to be longer than the software it refers to.

The FSF agrees with you, you know. In the GPL FAQ, it's written that if your code is shorter than the GPL, it's probably not worth it to put it under the GPL.

Re:Copyright irrelevant in 35 years

[Eminence]

In 35 years capitalism will be dead...

Read too much Marx recently?