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Serious question: how would "author's death plus 10 years" work for companies?
by rlayton2 9y ago
Serious question: how would "author's death plus 10 years" work for companies?
- LoSboccacc 9y agoor group works. would nirvana songs be public domain?
- bjoli 9y agoHave a fallback. Authors death +10 years or at most 30 years (numbers pulled out of my posterior. I am not suggesting anything)
- T-hawk 9y agoThis encourages gaming the system: companies will seek to designate as the copyright holder the youngest available employee, to make the term last longer.
- tarboreus 9y agoA good question, though we're currently living in a world that is the author's death plus 95 years in the US, so this is already standard practice. Works not covered this way get a ridiculous 120 years copyright coverage. I would say a flat 35 years from publication or 50 years for unpublished works would be reasonable.