A petition to pass along.

[merlinofchaos]

Drunen pointed this one out to me. It's a petition to get Congress to pay attention to a particular piece of legislation that would very slightly improve copyright law in that it would require active participation to to extend old copyrights; in particular, it would help preserve old movies where the copyright owners can't even be located, before the film stock deteriorates to uselessness due to age.

Check out the petition

Comments

[kent.livejournal.com]

Is there any evidence that online petitions ever do any good? I'm not talking about fan campaigns to save shows (which are organized online), like the one that saved Roswell.

I think it would be more effective if people were urged to contact their representative in Congress.

But this is definitely an important issue and I wish Congress wouldn't keep bowing to big copyright holders like Disney so nothing ever passes into the Public Domain.