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I mean, around now would be a fairly convenient time for giant companies to change their mind about copyright. After all, that creative commons drawing and GPL
by neltnerb 3y ago
I mean, around now would be a fairly convenient time for giant companies to change their mind about copyright. After all, that creative commons drawing and GPL code are only protected because of copyright, correct?
- homarp 3y ago>a fairly convenient time for giant companies to change their mind about copyright but then they would not be able to do this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100140
- neltnerb 3y agoI am speaking tongue in cheek of course, if they weren't themselves protected at all it would not work out for them. They couldn't own the distribution system well enough to keep the cat in the bag. But I can see them being okay with bringing copyright back to 10 years or something, they make most of the money from publishing a new television series early on. If they made it ten years, paying for streaming old television series doesn't require paying the copyright owners anything so it's pure profit for the streaming service. Of course people can go elsewhere, but if they can only get things made in the last 10 years on some particular service, they'd just use the same to view old things... and pay the website without the creators getting anything. So every distributor wins because they can all offer the older material as a pure profit for themselves and an enticement to join the service (on top of the actual unique material from the last 10 years).