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I don't think so. Vast majority of creative works fall out of favor in the first 15 years of publication, so creators wouldn't be giving up anywhere near as muc
by mitchdoogle 3y ago
I don't think so. Vast majority of creative works fall out of favor in the first 15 years of publication, so creators wouldn't be giving up anywhere near as much as if copyright was totally abolished. The situations are not comparable in the slightest.
- tptacek 3y agoThen their creators can released them under a lenient license, or to the public domain. Why do we get to decide for them?
- ncallaway 3y agoI mean, we get to decide for them because copyright is an artificial limitation imposed by law on society to benefit creators. It is a compromise between society and creators that is codified legislatively. We get to decide “for them”, because it’s an agreement between them and us (where the “them” and the “us” are actually both just the body poltic). It’s a mistake to think of copyright as the natural order of things. It is a legislative creation, with the specific purpose of encouraging works entering the public domain, which is why we get to decide.
- account42 3y agoBecause we're the ones granting them a temporarary monopoly in the first place.