On 4 May 2005, at 22:00, Greg Newby wrote:
Reminder: please offer comments! I'm planning on getting something in by the May 9 5:00 pm EDT deadline (it's not May 5 as mentioned) below.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:33:41PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:
The nature of the comments that can still be submitted are "reply comments." If you find particularly good documents to reply to (either because they say something great, or something terrible), please let me know.
What I noticed so far is that few comments propose solutions. Many people want strawberry icecream, few are willing to make it. Perhaps this is a useful angle; by pointing out what the author failed to describe, PG can still write its original comment. (I am not going to write it though. I would be willing to edit it, but expect to be busy this weekend.)
Initially some 700 comments were submitted. It's hard to read through all of them, so I suggest Googling for abstracts, looking for the usual suspects et cetera.
I'm looking at http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/ and only see about 150 comments. Maybe they removed duplicates (a lot of folks probably submitted some sort of template)? Still, a lot of reading.
I guess I just looked at the last index number (in the file name: OW0721-Duranceau). What's more, I do not see any gaps in the list of numbers.
There's an unused Wiki running at <http://www.gutenberg.org/cgi-bin/wiki-newsletter.cgi>. I suggest you use that for sharing notes.
(Still unused...)
Not anymore. I wrote abstracts for 15 comments in an hour. Most of those comments are 1 page affairs (often just a couple of lines in support).
Do not wait for an official PG position statement. Official statements are hard to draft, because they require consensus. Also, official statements tend to sound impersonal, exactly because they represent a consensus position. There is nothing wrong with sounding like you actually care (although I would leave the Hubler-style hysterics at home).
Concur!!! It's OK to just write a brief comment reply that says you agree with someone, or disagree with someone. It doesn't need to be a huge essay, and you do not need to be an expert about copyright.
Apparently <http://www.orphanworks.org> has a form (again) for submitting replies to the comments. Unfortunately the link doesn't work for me. -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl