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What you're saying makes sense, though I'd only add that it's not "now", it's been going on for ages. EA's endless series of franchises tells you everything you
by the_biot 4y ago
What you're saying makes sense, though I'd only add that it's not "now", it's been going on for ages. EA's endless series of franchises tells you everything you need to know about both EA and their customers, for decades.
But how can you possibly expect a law that takes away copyright of something they developed? That's insane, it'll never happen.
- toyg 4y ago> But how can you possibly expect a law that takes away copyright of something they developed? Apart from the theoreticals (expropriation exists, or we'd never get roads done), as I said above, it doesn't need to be retroactive. It's like laws for car manufacturers: new restrictions don't make old cars illegal, they just mandate how they should be produced going forward.
- account42 4y ago> But how can you possibly expect a law that takes away copyright of something they developed? That's insane, it'll never happen. That shouldn't really be any harder than retroactively extending copyright, which has happened multiple times. Or is it just the rights of big corporations that can never be restricted again? If a new law makes certain undesirable behaviors illegal for individuals should that only apply to people born after that law? No. Yes, retroactive copyright corrections will be harder to accomplish so, like the sibling comment suggests, we should focus on laws for new content for now. But we should also never froget that copyrighted content is NOT the property of the creator but of everyone. The I in "IP" is not redundant.