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Taking the death date into account is literally already how prevailing copyright law works. You can just make it conditional on publish date.
by kibwen 8mo ago
Taking the death date into account is literally already how prevailing copyright law works. You can just make it conditional on publish date.
- edent 8mo agoSure, but Life + 70 means it is unlikely that anyone will benefit from the death soon.
- Tangurena2 8mo agoOne provision of the Sony Bono Copyright Extension Act [0] (which expired 6 months after passage of the law) allowed next-of-kin to revoke (the sale of) copyrights sold by the author without recourse (by the folks who paid for them). Allegedly, this was added by Disney in order to cut costs hundreds of millions of dollars in a dispute over licensing Winnie The Pooh IP/rights [1]. Expect something similar when the next big author dies; my prediction: JK Rowling. Notes: 0 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/senate-bill/505 https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/senate-bill/505 1- https://hughstephensblog.net/2023/12/18/winnie-the-poohs-copyright-and-other-wars/ https://hughstephensblog.net/2023/12/18/winnie-the-poohs-cop...