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Yes, reining copyright terms in, putting in strong protections for individuals and hobbyists so that copyright is irrelevant to anyone with less than $1M in rev
by cookiecaper 10y ago
Yes, reining copyright terms in, putting in strong protections for individuals and hobbyists so that copyright is irrelevant to anyone with less than $1M in revenue, and liberalizing fair use (which unfortunately probably also means seriously overhauling our judicial processes to be not horrendously slow and expensive) would make copyright far more tolerable.
IMO the ideal would be something like 10 year copyright terms, with restrictions like requiring all software subject to copyright protection to submit its source.
- averagewall 10y agoLess than $1M? Then my personal business would evaporate because everyone would copy it for free. I provide value to people and they pay me and it supports my family. You're saying I should stop doing that work and become, I don't know, a bricklayer instead? I won't be able to do open source work because that doesn't generate money.
- kefka 10y agoNahh, if that's the case, then even more onerous DRM would take hold. And that would be because copyright woudn't exist for a multitude of people. And DRM would be the enforced control, rather than the threat of massive software copyright lawsuit. And likely, remote kill would also be implemented to nuke the software from the owner's point of view, in cases like alleged breach of contract and "pissed off owner' sort of reasons.. Like what Garagdet did when a customer posted a bad review of their IoT crap.
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- cookiecaper 10y agoI wasn't clear. I meant that copyright violations generally would be something that people with less than 1 million in revenue didn't have to worry about, not that it's protections would be irrelevant to them.