Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?
TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 hours agoAnything to shorten it sounds good to me.
So say we all.
In the U.S., recently, GOP Senator Josh Hawley, one of the speakers who helped incite the January 6th insurrection, introduced a bill to make the term of Copyright 28 years with optionally one renewal for an additional 28 years.
And, it’s so weird to me that I could agree with him on anything really.
Mind you, he introduced that bill in an effort to punish Disney for being too “woke”, but I’d let the MAGA nuts use such a bill as an opportunity to crow for a few minutes about their victory over strong woman protagonists or whatever if it got us more reasonable copyright terms. (And honestly that’s too long, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the bullshit we have now.)
Also, fuck Sonny Bono.
vsg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Steamboat Willie was released almost a hundred years ago but only got into public domain last year. 95 years of copyright is overkill.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
10 years plus an option for a 10 year extension is plenty.
Copyright should only apply to other individuals and companies trying to collect income (not just profit, making any money) from copying as well. The whole original idea about protecting the creator from being easily copied was a decent idea, and really only makes sense as useful to society in that context.
And yes, I am in favor of every work of art being in the public domain within two decades. That is plenty of time to benefit from exclusivity, they can create additional art or do some kind of promotional work or something else to keep making money off the fact that they created something that deserved to be exclusive.