Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 hours agoSo you would rather the publisher make the money instead of giving it to the family of the artist for a short period of time.
What terrible priorities.
wisely@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I think they mean it would become public domain and nobody would make money off of it. Books could be downloaded or used for free without a publisher.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
People make money off of the public domain all the time. A publisher currently publishing a book when an artist dies would have one less expense as they continued to rake in the money.