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A lot of this DRM hoo-ha could be avoided if we just had sane copyright durations instead of the ridiculous "life of the author + 75 years" bs that companies li
by justadeveloper2 9y ago
A lot of this DRM hoo-ha could be avoided if we just had sane copyright durations instead of the ridiculous "life of the author + 75 years" bs that companies like Disney successfully lobbied our do nothing for the regular guy Congress for. Put a 10 year copyright on everything, expire everything that should be expired. Done.
- TylerH 9y agoI dunno, working life of the author seems fair to me at least, if not life of the author, or "life of the author or 50 years, whichever lasts longer". If people love your work enough to keep buying it, why should you not get to keep profiting off of it for at least as long as you're alive? Considering people sometimes lose the ability to do work or also have families that depend on them, it doesn't seem so unreasonable to me. Now, these time periods that last what feels like 200 years, definitely absurd. I don't mind the notion of a copyright entering into the hands of a company, either, but if a copyright was originally an individual's, and then transfers to a company (either through purchase or through contract, etc.), I think the copyright should expire after about 10 to 20 years. Let the company make money off of it for a decent amount of time (otherwise there's not much incentive to buy it), and then send it to the public domain.