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My perspective on copyright is that it lasts too long, which I suspect can end up harming innovation. The way I roughly think about it is that if you grow up co
by TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
My perspective on copyright is that it lasts too long, which I suspect can end up harming innovation. The way I roughly think about it is that if you grow up consuming some form of media, by the time you're an adult (maybe 20 years later) it should enter the public domain allowing you to remix it or do whatever you want with it.
The media which you grow up consuming forms near-permanent structures in your brain. If by the time you're an adult the creator of your favorite childhood media decides to become a bigot you should be allowed to reclaim it and take it in whatever direction you want.
I also don't think it makes sense that we allow a small number of companies to buy the rights to most of our music, this grants them too much control over an important part of human culture.
Finally, the software world is forced by copyright to constantly waste engineering effort in rebuilding perfectly good tools that are no longer on sale. Imagine a world where source code were released as soon as some codebase is no longer under copyright! Isn't that essential for allowing us to build upon the work of those who have come before us? Otherwise we're forced to keep rebuilding the wheel, despite the fact that a group of top-tier engineers already built a near-perfect wheel 30 years ago.
Honestly, I think the devil is in the details. I'm not particularly dogmatic about any specific duration, and could probably be convinced that the rules should vary slightly based on different factors such as corporate vs individual ownership. There's probably a lot of edge cases that I haven't fully considered carefully, and I'm really open to exploring the topic.
Copyright is a topic which I contemplate often, and I'm thankful that the emergence of new AI tooling is forcing us to take a closer look. I think in general we should look to empower individuals, because they're the ones who will ultimately grow the game.