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I don't get paychecks from work I did 20 years ago. Why should anyone else? Moreover, the copyright term used to be 20 years way back in the 1700s-1800s. If
by midoridensha 4y ago
I don't get paychecks from work I did 20 years ago. Why should anyone else?
Moreover, the copyright term used to be 20 years way back in the 1700s-1800s. If 20 years was good enough back then (before overnight international shipping was possible), it's good enough now.
- jibbers 4y agoYour first paragraph had me thinking differently, but the second drifts off.
- midoridensha 4y agoThe second is questioning the validity of current copyright terms. The argument for authors continuing to receive royalty payments many years after publishing something is based on copyright law, however current copyright law is the author's entire life plus 70 years (IIRC), which is ludicrous. Even in the age of sailboats this was considered ridiculously excessive and unnecessary. So look at the reverse: why is even 20 years necessary? For software, that's ridiculously long. If it weren't for pirates, we wouldn't have a lot of older software (like old DOS games) any more because of these copyright terms.
- thfuran 4y agoI agree that modern IP protection lasts far, far longer in practical terms now than originally, even before accounting for actual extensions in wall clock time. It's pretty wild how long they are.