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Every industry whose product can be replicated very cheaply like fashion or food get absolutely no protectionisms. The reason the 'copyright' industry has prot
by sleepysysadmin 7y ago
Every industry whose product can be replicated very cheaply like fashion or food get absolutely no protectionisms.
The reason the 'copyright' industry has protections is because their rapid change in media. Theatre -> VCR-> DVD -> blueray -> digital. They have been able to reproduce their product at extreme lost cost and charge people over and over produced large sums of money.
They used that money from their golden age to lobby for protections they shouldn't have. These protections will go away in a few decades, possibly sooner.
- bediger4000 7y agoThere are repeated efforts to advance copyright to fashion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Piracy_Prohibition_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Piracy_Prohibition_Act This used to be something that NY Senators would announce almost yearly to throw a bone to the fashion industry.
- freeflight 7y ago> These protections will go away in a few decades, possibly sooner. I doubt it, Walt Disney died over 5 decades ago, yet Disney is still plenty busy lobbying for more copyright extensions [0]. Considering how much money they have available, and are still making, I'd be really surprised if they didn't manage to drag this on for pretty much forever. Especially considering they are not the only powerful entity lobbying in that direction. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
- zerocrates 7y agoThere hasn't really been movement for another extension and it's already "late" in terms of keeping the status quo forever: the Bono act was in 1998 and tacked on 20 years, so some works actually entered the public domain in the United States at the start of 2019.