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All true. It's a unique case here in that by the time the copyright period expires, the media will probably be unreadable. The idea of copyright is to reward c
by ballenf 8y ago
All true. It's a unique case here in that by the time the copyright period expires, the media will probably be unreadable.
The idea of copyright is to reward creativity for a limited time and then give that work to the public. If the work can't ever fall into public hands then I'd argue it shouldn't get copyright protection.
Obviously that's a public policy debate, not a justification for breaking the law but it makes me hesitant to judge someone who takes a risk for the benefit of us all.
- Benjamin_Dobell 8y agoYeah, I ought to point out that I agree with everything you've written. I'm far from a proponent of how wide reaching copyright laws are these days. Thanks, Disney! Nonetheless, despite not being a lawyer, and having never taken a single legal class during my education; I still find myself regularly correcting other professionals misunderstanding of copyright laws. It would be so easy for someone to seriously ruin their life by not understanding this stuff. Although, that's largely a flaw of our overly complicated legal system, and far from being exclusively the individuals fault.