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yeah, but if the copyright holder were, say, disney, then they would just perpetually renew it, because even if it isn't making them money now doesn't mean that
by pasquinelli 14y ago
yeah, but if the copyright holder were, say, disney, then they would just perpetually renew it, because even if it isn't making them money now doesn't mean that wouldn't want to make it into a line of merchandise and its associated movie sometime down the line.
- Kliment 14y agoWhich is fine. Let their works die off while others flourish.
- duskwuff 13y agoThen make the renewal fee double (or something) each time it's renewed. Eventually the cost of renewing the copyright will be more than it's worth to the rights holder. In any case, the fact that there is a deep-pocketed rights holder for those works means that those works are being cared for, to some degree at least. The ones we really have to worry about right now are those that are lost and forgotten before their copyright expires.