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From 14 years to what now will be an eternity: This original provision allowed authors the right to print, re-print or publish their work for 14 years, with th
by 1cvmask 5y ago
From 14 years to what now will be an eternity:
This original provision allowed authors the right to print, re-print or publish their work for 14 years, with the option to renew the copyright for another fourteen years. Today, copyrights can last well over 100 years, with the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extending copyright protection for most works to the life of the creator, plus 70 years.
- dorchadas 5y agoIt's really damn annoying. One of my interests is Celtic Studies/Linguistics and there's a thesis that was written in 1939. It's our one representation of this particular dialect of Irish. I've seen it, it's literally falling apart and the pages are see-through. There's been no digitization of it, and no interest in digitizing it by the University. But I can't check it out for in-library use and make a copy of it myself. When it's lost, it's lost, all because of stupid copyright laws, and won't be in public domain until 2076 in Ireland. It was literally written in 1939 and is our one description of a now extinct part of the language, and will literally be in pieces by then. Copyright should be no more than 10 years, renewable if there's a sizable re-release (.i. > 1000 copies) to make it constantly accessible at reasonable prices, and only for the original creator's life. That's the only way. If people stop publishing and using stuff, copyright ends.