Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramen
The problem I and probably many others have, is that "death" is simply to vague. The result is death + X which is simply too conservative (in the mathematical sense).
Date of publication + X is far more concise. The only instance where a family wouldn't inherit copyright would be for an old work. This is fine by me for the reasons others have stated above (encouragement, etc).
|
I have two issues against long copyrights.
1. Long copyrights are fine as long as it's the author who benefits most from the copyrights - but we all know that the real case is that some publishing corporation is reaping most of the rewards. And these days, they do their best to secure every single possible venue - book, movie, play, ebook, reprint...
2. Long copyrights also tend to allow a one-book (what I call "lazy") authors to bask in the "glory" without producing other works. I hate it when an author gets bored and leaves me hanging in the middle of the series.
(I admit this is a much less viable argument than the publishers/authors argument.
)
Derek