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Perhaps you underestimate the breadth of readership on HN.
by VeninVidiaVicii 5y ago
Perhaps you underestimate the breadth of readership on HN.
- amelius 5y agoIf someone can give me a more reasonable copyright duration, I will change the law tomorrow!
- labster 5y agoTwenty years from publication; the holder can pay the Library of Congress $2 to extend the copyright by one year. This fee doubles every year thereafter. So the 30th year only costs $1024, and the 40th year costs $1048576. If it remains profitable, you share the proceeds of rent-seeking with the public.
- shagie 5y agoAs copyrights are honored across multiple nations... this approach would encourage me to register my copyrights in say... Canada or England instead.
- labster 5y agoUSA is the driving force behind all of these copyright treaties. Given Canada’s role in abandoning the copyright part of TPP… I suspect most regimes would change to ones where they pay less American companies and earn more taxes themselves.
- contravariant 5y agoDeal, 10 years from publication.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]