Mexican government to effectively abolish the Public Domain

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Martin Kuplens-Ewart <martin () takingitglobal org>
Organization: TakingITGlobal
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:00:04 -0500
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Mexican government to effectively abolish the Public Domain

The mexican government seems to be preparing to eliminate the concept of
Public Domain by effectively transferring ownership of intellectual property
whose copyright protection is expiring to the government of Mexico.

"One change that has also become the subject of discussion is
the increase of the patrimonial right term of life plus
seventy-five years to life plus one hundred years.  Once the
term expires, the Government would have the power to collect
fees from the use of works, which are no longer protected.
Older statutes like the Copyright Law of 1956 followed a
similar system, which was abolished during the eighties as
it resulted unfair and inapplicable. In addition, the bill
would suggest a provision on restoration of rights for works
that fell into the public domain for lack of compliance with
formalities in conformance with the Civil Codes of 1884 and
1932."

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/mexican.txt




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