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I think the original implementation of copyright was fine
I think the 20-40 year range for copyright is fine, and I think copyright itself is fine too when it is in the same ecosystem of strong pro-privacy laws. However currently copyright is broken, it lasts far to long as is “Complimented” further laws that are absurd.
copyright or not. im still downloading a car
Leaning towards the shorter times, as in 10 years by default, with two additional extensions of 10 years up to a maximum of 30 done by filling paperwork and paying a fee. This time frame would provide plenty of opportunity for work to be monetized by their creator, and as well as there being room for continued monetization up to a realistic (IE non eternal) limit. While providing space for new generations to develop things that were abandoned, and the next generation to remix something they enjoyed as children.
Do note, I believe that this discussion has little to do with Piracy. While a thing entering public domain would mean that it could be distributed freely, I’m largely concerned about the creators and their ability to remix existing properties, as unfortunately, you can’t really pirate copyrights. Everything created based on another’s work (which lacks special permissive licensing) is always dancing on the knives edge of the owner’s whims.
With the system as it is, anything that released when you’re a five year old, you can only legally remix it when you’re so old you can’t remember it anymore. (And that’s if you’re lucky)
As an IP attorney I support what I call “The Founder’s Copyright”
- 15 year term, plus and additional 15 is you re-register.
- mandatory registration. None of this auto-registration
- mandatory copyright notice (Copyright © 2023)
- no moral rights
- no retroactive copyright extensions (should have been unConstitutional, bad SCOTUS specifically Ginsburg who wrote that opinion)
- recognition in the law that computers and the internet work by copying. This blanket prohibition on copying causes judges to make workable exceptions and intentional ignore the ludacris parts of the law.
- as a bonus, I think you should be required to give 2 full copies of whatever you register for archiving.
If they roll back copyright law to the state it was in in 1830, I’d support it again.
I support the original copyright laws in the US. Mostly the same as we have now, but you were only automatically given 17 years of copyright protection, plus an additional 17 years if you filed for an extension. Effectively, you got a maximum of 34 years of copyright, not this 100+ years atrocity we have now. Imo, anything beyond that is corporate theft of the public domain.
Also, if you’re awful to consumers like Nintendo is, the gloves come off. I believe piracy as a form of protest is morally sound
I’m kind of with a lot of the other people here it seems, but for me:
- 10-15 years max, that should be more than enough to make plenty of money from whatever you create, then it belongs to the world. I’ve heard people argue against this with: what about when the artist gets older and has to retire? Or, what about leaving something to their kids? Well, save and budget properly and learn how to live on your pension, just like everybody else.
- Copyright belongs to the person who made the thing. A legal entity like a corporation can lease the right to use the thing, but it can’t own the thing.
- If the copyright holder dies before the copyright term is up, it goes to the public domain. Someone tried to argue with me once that this would lead to artists being killed so people could get out of paying them, but I’d counter that the instances now of artists being killed so someone else can inherit their copyright is basically zero so I don’t really see why it would go any differently the other way.
Some of that probably needs dome fine-tuning, but it has to be better than the current system whereby you end up with mega-corporations endlessly milking shitty derivative works out of someone’s creative efforts a century after they’re dead, or people who’s full-time job is to cash-in on something their grandfather wrote, the copyright now having become multi-generational.
If the copyright holder dies before the copyright term is up, it goes to the public domain. Someone tried to argue with me once that this would lead to artists being killed so people could get out of paying them, but I’d counter that the instances now of artists being killed so someone else can inherit their copyright is basically zero so I don’t really see why it would go any differently the other way.
Um yea… I don’t like this idea. I rather just have law that sets a time where upon publication, a timer starts. The term of the copyright should not be depedent on the health of a person. What if a writer die like a week after publishing a bestseller that would’ve made millions? Their family shouldn’t be deprived of the money just because the writer has bad health.
But all your other points seem reasonable.
