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Can anyone argue with a straight face that there exists any creative person anywhere in the world whose creative output is in any way dependent on whether or no
by gabemart 13y ago
Can anyone argue with a straight face that there exists any creative person anywhere in the world whose creative output is in any way dependent on whether or not their estate will have the legal right to collect royalties from derivative works 83 years after their death?
- chrismcb 13y agoThe folks at Disney can. Personally I believe that any copyright term that exceeds the average human lifespan does not live up to the spirit of "limited."
- colomon 13y agoMore to the point, can anyone argue that extending the royalties from works created 83 years ago makes the author more likely to have written them back them?
- jiggy2011 13y agoI suppose the rights are worth more if they can be protected for longer. A higher potential sale price is an incentive to invest more money/time into the development of a franchise. How this scales down to the case of an individual author seems more dubious though.