Lawrence Lessig/blog/2002/11/27/1203/2

responds to::Lawrence Lessig/blog/2002/11/27/1203 when posted::November 28, 2002 1:40 AM author::Jason Schultz Thanks David. As the Barbie Liberation Organization once made Killer G.I. Joe say, "Math is hard!"

For those interested, I re-ran the numbers for 1927-1946 and they're actually even better.

Between 1927-1946, 187,280 books were published in the U.S. Only 4,267 are available in 2002 from publishers, or 2.3% of the total published in those years. This means that over 97% of the U.S. book copyrights that would be "affected" by striking down the 1976 retroactive extension are commercially dormant.