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Simple answer to begin discussion: copyright owned and controlled wholly by the people who actually created the art gets life+70 protection, with specific requi
by LocalH 3y ago
Simple answer to begin discussion: copyright owned and controlled wholly by the people who actually created the art gets life+70 protection, with specific requirements (to be discussed) for the stewards of that copyright post-death. However, copyright owned or transferred to a corporation gets 28 with a 14 renewal.
- vidarh 3y agoThis would get you contracts for licensing rights to exploitation to corporations instead of an outright transfer of copyright to circumvent the different length of protection.
- LocalH 3y agoThat would be absolutely fine, as long as those rights don't prevent the actual rightsholder from doing anything (past the "normal" corporate copyright length, in this hypothetical scenario). So such an "exclusive" license should max at 28 years, with a 14 year extension (requiring appropriate consideration, not some $1 backroom deal).