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Why do you think the copyright system is archaic? It's the only thing protecting the livelihood of millions of people around the globe.
by AlienRobot 2y ago
Why do you think the copyright system is archaic? It's the only thing protecting the livelihood of millions of people around the globe.
- inglor_cz 2y agoNot the OP, but if general copyright lasted for 20 years and you had to pay (even a small) fee for prolonging it after that period, the public domain would expand massively and abandonware + orphaned works would stop being a thing. And the very few lucrative works would still be protected, because their copyright holders would pay the fee. The tragedy of current copyright is that there is an enormous mass of copyrighted works that is a) commercially useless or nearly useless, but b) still copyrighted, so other people cannot build on them.
- kranke155 2y ago40 years copyright sounds about right to me, half the average human lifetime and certainly most of one’s highly productive lifetime.