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Originally Posted by Fbone
Some material can take a long time to create or produce. There is always a lag between copyright and release shortening the time further. Will quality decrease because there is less time to profit? I can envision multiple movies released based on an 11yo book by different studios simultaneously. No need to purchase film rights.
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Multiple points here, I'm not going to quote them individually.
- Make the copyright from release date.
- I would expect quality to improve. Special effects and established directors are expensive. Put a limit on the budget of individual movies and then the cheap thing is ethusiastic and innovative young directors. A good writer doesn't tend to improve his work by spending longer on it - sur he does a first draft and an edit, but he doesn't spend a decade at revision.
- IMO - with reference to movie rights of an 11yo book - we should treat private use separately from commercial use.
- It's pretty academic to talk about a 10 year copyright period, anyway. Realistically, we're not gonna slash copyright to 10 years and appease artists by saying "we'll increase it again if we need to". That seems like a slppery slope. We can only succeed by stating the the aim of copyright reduction, and then reducing it step by step, by 10 or 20 years at a time.
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Also, need to allow time for new media formats. "Director's Cut" and "Anniversary Edition"
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I would expect the newly released material to be covered under a new copyright period.
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And it's possible media companies will increase prices to compensate for shortened protection.
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Well, that's quite acceptable. Since we get liberal access to it after 10 years, the cost averages out.