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Originally Posted by BenG
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This is why we so need copyright and trademark reform (pretty much all IP law, really).
Copyright should be, at most, for an author's life +19 years. I get that plus from the purely theoretical child that is conceived on the author's last day on earth and the support that child should have until they reach adulthood.
"Corporate" copyright (which I deplore, but seems unlikely to be abolished) should be for a period, from the point of creation, equal to the average global life expectancy -18 years. My logic being that most real people's creative productivity is as an adult. That would put current "corporate" ownership at 71-18=53 years.
Yes, this would likely lead to unequal lengths between individual and corporate copyrights. But you know what, individuals should have more rights and protections than corporations, IMO.
Want to make it "fair"? Fine. I'll support a flat 50 years across the board.
Then we won't have this jackanapery from estates of of people who died in 1930.