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> I'd fully support lowering copyright down to 10 or 20 years or so. I agree. It should be no longer than a patent duration. Death of the author + 70 years is
by baseballdork 4y ago
> I'd fully support lowering copyright down to 10 or 20 years or so.
I agree. It should be no longer than a patent duration. Death of the author + 70 years is just an insane duration and means that works created in your lifetime will practically never enter public domain before you die.
- owlbite 4y agoI could go for some scheme where the first 10 years are free, and then you have to register for $x where x is a value that doubles every year. That allows the big IPs to get roughly what they want for commercially viable stuff, but also means that 99% of stuff will drop out of copyright quickly.
- beej71 4y agoThe original term in the US was 14 years with one optional 14-year renewal. That sounds good to me. The most popular thing I've written was 27 years ago, so the initial versions would just about be in the public domain now. But the newer versions would still be copyrighted.
- jimhefferon 4y ago> Death of the author + 70 years is just an insane duration Also, I have had trouble finding when some authors died.