Someone here on HN suggested to watch a popular tv-show with the laughs removed from the soundtrack. When this is an easy and _legal_ thing to do (perhaps a li

Someone here on HN suggested to watch a popular tv-show with the laughs removed from the soundtrack. When this is an easy and _legal_ thing to do (perhaps a link from the author of that comment to YouTube). I’ll say we’re starting to see a working copyright law. I’m not sure a perpetual renewal helps with that. OTOH another issue a new law should address is how to make sure originals of a work are preserved for the public at all. Original recordings of music albums f.ex. So perhaps a required registration, bundled with a way to save an original work could be a good thing. It would be like the coyleft licenses that require the work in its “preferred” from to be made available.