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Pragmatic Solution: Make 4 year extensions for copyright to cost $1,000,000 per item. Increase the fee to account for inflation. Micky Mouse and Sherlock Holm
by baldfat 9y ago
Pragmatic Solution:
Make 4 year extensions for copyright to cost $1,000,000 per item. Increase the fee to account for inflation.
Micky Mouse and Sherlock Holmes (2nd Half) will stay locked up but the 99.9% of the other works are freed.
It isn't perfect but it will release the rest into public domain.
- pimmen 9y agoAs you say, it's not perfect, but it would absolutely help us preserve culture beyond what is still classic 75+ years from now. We have lost the vast majority of silent era films and more historical films will follow since it's illegal for you to save them to digital format without the explicit consent from the content creator. We won't lose Casablanca or The Seventh Seal since they're preserved by historical archives and companies can still make money screening them but TV-movies like Star Wars the Holiday Special is only being preserved by illegal means because nobody bothers enforcing its copyright. Sure, that movie is an abomination, but film historians 100 years from now would presumably want some proof that Lucas made it and that it really was the first appearance of Boba Fett.
- jbob2000 9y agoI think this is a good solution. There are and will still be companies that want to protect and make money off of their old assets. I really don't want to see a market flooded with Mickey Mouse knock off garbage. But if the creator is dead and nobody is making any money off their work, then put it in the public domain so it doesn't get lost in time.