Tag Archives: Rufus Pollock

Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play

Posted on 7 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play is a post by Rufus Pollock at the Open Knowledge Foundation which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information.  He makes the observation, which I think is on target, … Continue reading →

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Optimal Copyright Term Length

Posted on 23 July 2007 by Rick Mason

Forever Minus a Day?  Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (Pdf), a presentation by Rufus Pollock, examines the history of copyright terms and determines that the optimal term length is about 14 years (half of what the original copyright term was in both … Continue reading →

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