{"id":4214,"date":"2003-06-04T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2003-06-04T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T15:31:08","slug":"resources-for-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4214","title":{"rendered":"resources for the commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For people interested in the<b> information commons<\/b>, here<\/p>\n<p>are two sites worth visiting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lawrence Lessig is circulating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/eldred\/\">petition<\/a>\n<p>asking Congress to pass a &quot;Public Domain Enhancement Act. This statute would<\/p>\n<p>require American copyright owners to pay a very low fee (for example, $1) fifty<\/p>\n<p>years after a copyrighted work was published. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright<\/p>\n<p>will continue for whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright is not<\/p>\n<p>worth even $1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public<\/p>\n<p>domain.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>The American Library Association has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/info-commons.org\/blog\/\">&quot;commons-blog<\/a>,&quot;\n<p>devoted to issues of intellectual property. The ALA is a powerful resource for<\/p>\n<p>civic work and a supporter of the public domain. Librarians run important civic<\/p>\n<p>institutions in communities and schools; they are custodians of intellectual property<\/p>\n<p>that people can use for free; and they promote deliberation. The ALA has what<\/p>\n<p>the whole public-interest movement most desperately needs: an active, knowledgeable,<\/p>\n<p>grassroots base. Leaders of the ALA, such as Nancy Kranich, a recent President<\/p>\n<p>whom I know, are aware of their civic role.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For people interested in the information commons, here are two sites worth visiting: Lawrence Lessig is circulating a petition asking Congress to pass a &quot;Public Domain Enhancement Act. This statute would require American copyright owners to pay a very low fee (for example, $1) fifty years after a copyrighted work was published. If the owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-and-public-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}