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The biggest benefit imo is that derived works can be created freely, imagine if you could use all music up to the 60s or what not freely in any movie or video g
by vhold 11y ago
The biggest benefit imo is that derived works can be created freely, imagine if you could use all music up to the 60s or what not freely in any movie or video game you make, or make a game about guessing the movie from scenes from all movies instead of just a tiny subset you had to spend thousands of dollars working with lawyers to negotiate on, etc.
- douche 11y agoThen every chain restaurant wouldn't need to have their own, non-infringing Happy Birthday song... One possibly crackpot theory that just occurred to me is that in the _Futurama_ universe, copyright was extended so far as to be perpetual[1] [1] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ubbd92/futurama-nibbler-s-birthday http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ubbd92/futurama-nibbler-s-birt...