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> True but what about musicians who write songs and don't release them until many years later (stuff that is written and not released until it fits on an album
by anamax 14y ago
> True but what about musicians who write songs and don't release them until many years later (stuff that is written and not released until it fits on an album 5 years down the road). If we shorten the copyright period too much it could be problematic for them.
That's solved by not starting the copyright clock until they make it available for copying, that is, releasing it.
Do you have an example of a piece of music that sat around for more than 30 days before it was released unchanged? I ask because the last change starts a copyright clock....
- k-mcgrady 14y agoThat makes sense. I was thinking of the stories about artists like Michael Jackson having hundreds of unreleased tracks in vaults or bands like Nirvana releasing compilation albums with unreleased tracks 10/15 years after the band ends. Starting copyright upon release would solve the problem.