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Copyright should expire after like 15 years. Academic publishers should not exist, research - especially publically funded research - should just go straight t
by rvense 2y ago
Copyright should expire after like 15 years.
Academic publishers should not exist, research - especially publically funded research - should just go straight to the public domain.
- dylan604 2y agoSome research is funded through private donations to a specific school, or because the team shopped their project around to find private funding directly. This goes beyond public funding which grays up that public access to the research especially when compared to something like data produced by NASA
- staplers 2y agoSome research is funded through private donations Then start a company. Universities shouldn't be R&D departments to skirt corporate laws and taxes.
- autoexec 2y ago14 years was considered good enough back when it was prohibitively expensive to publish anything and worldwide distribution was basically impossible. Today, when publishing is essentially free and worldwide distribution happens at close to light speed you think we should expand copyright for another year? I lean more towards 7-10 years, with required registration involving a DRM free copy of the work submitted to the US copyright office (where possible) who will automatically host that file for free once the copyright term has expired. There should be an RSS feed from copyright.gov with download links to the latest works entering the public domain. That'd also make it dead simple to find who you need to contact if you want to negotiate rights to use a work still under copyright's protection. I agree that anything getting public funding should be public domain on day one (normal exceptions for national security etc)
- snvzz 2y ago5 year, renewable twice to a maximum of 15 years, by registering and paying a nominal renewal fee (let's say $200), which is multiplied on the second renewal (let's say 3x or $600).
- freejazz 2y agoSo after 15 years, I can start selling other people's movies and books? That seems odd.
- snvzz 2y agoPublic domain seeming odd is a major problem.
- freejazz 2y agoIt's the timing that seems odd.
- account42 2y agoWhy is that odd? Do you think it's odd that Disney is selling fables that they did not come up with? Shared culture belonging to everyone used to be what was normal.
- freejazz 2y ago>Do you think it's odd that Disney is selling fables that they did not come up with? I don't, anyone is free to animate their own versions of public domain material and sell it? What's weird about that? Perhaps you don't understand how copyright law functions, but Disney has no copyright in the underlying fable.