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It's unbelievable how long copyright lasts. It seems unlikely that the prospect of legal battles 40 years in the future were part of the original Ms. Pac-Man de
by zucker42 7y ago
It's unbelievable how long copyright lasts. It seems unlikely that the prospect of legal battles 40 years in the future were part of the original Ms. Pac-Man developers' motivations for creating the game.
- mjevans 7y agoIt is my personal belief that in many fields patents last too long already. Copyrights are just beyond insane. I like the idea of initial automatic copyright (like it currently is); though I think the duration on that might be better as 5 or 10 years. Lets go with 10 years for the first initial, automatic copyright, just as a starting point. Also add in one additional year to allow for paperwork filing; so 11 years. Past that point in time I'd like to see a requirement for continued registration (and a filing fee that increases exponentially); I also would like compulsory rates per type of work. Those should be set by the library of congress (and contestable by lawsuit). The compulsory rate also requires furnishing, for a reasonable fee, a unit of the work that is unencumbered by technological restrictions preventing the study and modification of the work in question.