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The point of copyright is to incentivize the creation of new works, at the expense of making those works less available. Adding additional copyright restrictio
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The point of copyright is to incentivize the creation of new works, at the expense of making those works less available. Adding additional copyright restrictions to existing work from decades ago does nothing to incentivize the creation of new works. It's all cost and no benefit.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoIt all makes perfect sense to me now. Someone has developed a time machine. If copyrights are longer in the past, they will have incentive to go back into the past, create new works there, and use the profits to fund the operation of their time machine. That's actually the only scenario where this copyright extension will cause the creation of new works. Barring that, yes, it's just a money grab by copyright holders (most of whom are not even the artists who created the works).