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Especially if you compare that to patented technological inventions, that often consumed much more time, effort and money to develop. These patents expire after
by jansan 8y ago
Especially if you compare that to patented technological inventions, that often consumed much more time, effort and money to develop. These patents expire after 20 years. How can it be justified that a song that someone wrote maybe within a week keeps the copyright virtually forever?
- C1sc0cat 8y agoWhistlers comment on why he charge what he did John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?' Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
- scotty79 8y agoTo treat what you wrote as counterpoint to previous commenter you'd have to claim that inventors are far less knowledgeable, experienced and younger than musicians.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoNot really a song might take a week or 5 mins to write but its the result of years of experience and hard work - your not going to write "September Song" at 18 are you You would be ok with your employer using the same argument when they paid you ?
- scotty79 8y agoArgument was that inventors are less protected than entertainers. Why the guy who invented neodymium magnets has monopoly for 20 years while Britney Spears has pretty much indefinite monopoly on less than 4 minutes of content that she sang when she was 17 or sth.