On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:05:58 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , Java Jive
wrote:

I'd love to change copyright law so that material that has remained
unpublished for, say, 20+ years can be republished by anyone if the
IPR owner fails to do so. But that's not what UK law says... :-/

How about a UK Government Petition to change the law?
https://petition.parliament.uk/

That's in interesting idea! I suspect politicians would be lobbied by the
'power of the media companies' to reject such an idea. But it might be
worth trying a petition just to see how many people agree with something
along the lines I suggested.

BTH I have started threads on the HFN index and on people forming a
'history society' for hifi on the 'pink fish' web forum in case anyone is
interested.

Jim


I've only just seen this and thought I'd mention a project recently
undertaken to make certain music technology magazine titles available
online. This was done by interested readers themselves with little or no
input from the publishers (although I'm fairly sure that they had
permission from the publishers to put them publically online). Take a look
at http://www.muzines.co.uk for more info.

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