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Copyright and patents have an age limit - for good reasons. If anyone would have a patent for the wheel, it would have expired by now - letting everyone use the
by z3t4 3y ago
Copyright and patents have an age limit - for good reasons. If anyone would have a patent for the wheel, it would have expired by now - letting everyone use the design for free.
- Jochim 3y agoCopyright restrictions are so lengthy that only people born at the tail-end of the author's life will ever be able to build on that work. Take the Lord of the Rings for example: Tolkien has been dead for half a century, the society that recognised and popularised his work is largely dead, having had no opportunity to contribute to, or build on it. The idea that society has raised multiple generations of people who weren't even alive contemporaneously with the author doesn't sit well personally.
- z3t4 3y agoPatents are 20 years, and copyright should probably also be 20 years. Or 10 years after you stopped working on it.