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Originally Posted by darknessangel
I think copyright laws should be valid just for the lifetime of the author and extended only for supporting his nuclear family (like wife + underage son/daughter). Yes, because everyone has the right to earn their daily bread.
In addition, some science books should be released from copyrights in some poor regions. I'm pretty sure that in countries of the third world you're not going to or even CAN get that $400 medicine book, you're thankful for even getting an education at all! Enforcing copyright laws in such environments is utterly ridiculous and imposses clear veil of ignorance onto people without resources!
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The problem of time restrictions on copyright, especially when they are linked to the creator, is what if the work was created by committee? Would the rights to copy be distributed among all those involved in the creation? What would happen when one member of the committee died, along with their entire nuclear family in a horrible accident? Would the share to the rights be split up between the other members of the committee?
Rights have tended to be sold in the past, would we have to end this practice of selling copyright in order to keep these rights in the hands of the creator? How would we deal with works created by committee, where one member wishes to sell their portion of the rights to another committee? Does this kind of stuff happen already?? I suspect it does.
I do agree that all non-fiction should be unable to be copyrighted, but there are those (myself included) who believe that the line between fiction and non-fiction is too blurry to distinguish between the two. What then?
It would seem to be far simpler to abandon copyright while at the same time developing a new system for payments to the creator.
This new system should allow the full text of a work to be read and thought about before the reader decides whether or not the work is worth a few coins.
