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> Without the copyrights, you could imagine private libraries popping up and works only accessible via strict security. I don't really have to imagine it. That

• cogman10 2y ago
  > That just seems like such a foreign problem from todays environment with how readily people share information. I think it is more due to ease than the right to an artificial monopoly that people share so much information now though. Totally agree. It solved a very different problem than what we have today and even runs counter to the original intent because of how much the terms have been expanded. Now, we have things like scientific publishers who jealously lock up papers behind expensive paywalls and use copyright as a kludge to keep those papers from ever seeing the general public. What's worse, because everything is digital it's entirely feasible that these papers will all be lost to time if one of these companies goes out of business. It really is high time we revisit what copyrights are doing vs what they were intended to do. I'm not opposed to keeping them around, but at very least we should change the time they apply to something far more reasonable. Heck, even when copyright is applicable should be bound to whether or not the work has been submitted to a national archiving service. Not submitted to the archiving service, no copyright applies.