Re: [d@DCC] Draft press release - send a Gutenberg DVD

From: digital.copyright.ca.lists _-at-_ ssalomons.fastmail.fm
To: discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:02:44 +0200
References: <200506221404.j5ME4UMZ015234@newdelhi.flora.ca>

Something I wanted to do (but haven't been able to, am currently
overseas) is send out a DVD copy of the Project Gutenberg DVD to various
MPs with a letter inside. The letter would read something like:

You hold in your hand 10000 public domain books covering all manner of
topics: Shakespeare, dictionaries, encyclopedias, novels, textbooks,
political and historical documents, classical literature and much more.
The works of Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many others
are on this disk. This single disk contains more books than my
elementary school library did, and this disk from Project Gutenberg is
free to distribute to anyone. It costs less than a dollar to produce a
copy of this DVD.

Canada would greatly benefit when all its citizens can freely read,
access and work with these texts. However, by extending the length of
copyright and locking away current works, the value of this work cannot
grow. No new works may be legally added to this collection if

Future works will be prevented from being added. If works are
encumbered by Technological Protection Mechanisms (TPM), then even when
those works become legally distributable, the TPMs will technically
prevent anyone from adding the works to this digital library.

Please, do not allow this to happen. Do not pass bill C-60 in its
current form. Ensure that the wealth of the public library can grow and
is not locked away by corporate interests.

Yours truly,
a concerned voter and citizen


If anyone wants to use this idea, please do. Just let us know how it
works out.
-- 
Stephen Salomons
Ernst-Berl Institut, CT1
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Petersenstr. 20
64287 Darmstadt, DE

salomons@ct.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de
Fax.: +49 (06151) 16 34 65
Tel.: +49 (06151) 16 43 03


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