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They'd just sell it as a perpetual or 100 year lease instead then.
by 93po 3y ago
They'd just sell it as a perpetual or 100 year lease instead then.
- growingkittens 3y agoAn originator could lease their work, but only as long as they own the rights to it. Perpetual leases wouldn't be possible. When an originator dies before their copyright does, for instance, the work is transferred to a separate entity and thus has a defined time limit.
- 93po 3y agoWouldn't everyone just create a corporation and assign all their work to that from conception? Corporations never die.
- growingkittens 3y agoCorporations cannot be originators. If you assign work to a different entity, it is no longer owned by the originator, and subject to a shorter copyright term.
- 93po 3y agoAre you saying that's how you would solve it, or that's how things work? Employees create content all the time that is copyrighted by default by their employer and never by the employee.
- growingkittens 3y agoThat's how I would solve it, yes.