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The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
by xwdv 5y ago
The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
- est31 5y agoThe greatest works of past times are "shitty fan works". In the eras before copyright, people were taking each other's works all the time, and improving upon it.
- moffkalast 5y agoReminder that Dante's Inferno was shitty fan fiction.
- tapas73 5y agoIs there some story about it?
- labster 5y agoYeah, copyright pirates are all sent to the 10th circle of Hell, where they are forced to write CC licensed fanfic stories on GPL software like GNU/Linux for eternity.
- patmorgan23 5y agoHail Stalman!
- scollet 5y agoShitty in that there was literal shit, but I get your point.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoLoL came from DOTA, which came from Warcraft (which also deviated into MMOs, a copy of Everquest), which came from them making a warhammer game and reusing assets. It never stopped.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoDisney has plenty of derivative dribble. One might even argue they've had to buy other creators to escape their old strategy of rehashing pre-copyright fairytales. People will create even if the long tail of profit is cut short.
- lgrialn 5y agoIt's "drivel". But you're totally right.
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- shrubble 5y agoBrilliant as JRR Tolkien was, I don't think he had the ability to see into the future of copyright law. Therefore I believe that his motivation lay elsewhere.
- moffkalast 5y agoAre they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.
- johannes1234321 5y agoWhat about the creator who has a wife and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident? Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
- NoSorryCannot 5y agoWhat does the average person have to do to provide their family this kind of security? I don't think copyright needs to do double duty as life insurance and it is mostly not helpless widows that are benefitting from it.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoThat is no different from somebody who has a regular job or starts a business and passes away too soon. There is no security for the family either. In the end the main beneficiaries are big corporations and not creators.
- johannes1234321 5y agoThe difference to a salaried worker is that the salaried worker gets the money for the work they do more or less immediately. The artist typically gets the payment only long after completing the work. (Self employed are in a complicated way in between)
- ggrrhh_ta 5y agoI think that's why the post said "starts a business and passes away"; they have stopped being salaried and rely on the good prospects of the ownership of an own business to do well (from salaried, to "stock" owner of something that still has very little financial value or that the financial value that it has depends on the founder still being alive).
- _jal 5y ago...Which explains why there was no great art made before 1998, right?
- throw_m239339 5y ago> The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes. People like whom? Disney?
- eagsalazar2 5y agoThis comment is fake. Right?