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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
It's an interesting poll topic, but it has a flaw in its methodology. It assumes that every voter thinks that the current span is the maximum that copyright terms should ever be: that is, it assumes that every voter wants a span of liftetime of the creator plus 70 years, or some amount less than that.
That's certainly not what Disney wants, and there's no way from these poll results to assess if anyone here feels that a longer span is the way to go (indeed, if one choice is copyright should be abolished, another should be that copyright is permanent and never expires).
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Quite so, and it's a bit pointless in practical terms. It's not like discussions here will actually affect decisions as to length of copyright.
But DisneyCo is trying to make sure Mickey and friends never become public domain. I can't blame them for wanting that outcome, but I'm deeply unhappy about the side effects.
The simple solution from my view is two forms of copyright. Copyright as stands is for the author's like plus X number of years, and the concept was devised back before corporations generally held such rights. It's fine for rights held by individual creators. But Disney is a corporation, and won't die in that sense. I'd say rights held by a legal entity like Disney need to be treated differently than rights held by an individual.
As far as I'm concerned, Disney can have the rights to Mickey and friends in perpetuity, if in the process other forms of rights are not altered.
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Dennis