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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
When you do something right for the wrong reason, doesn't necessarily make you right.
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Which doesn’t really matter in this case. It’s not like we’re rescuing someone and have non altruistic motives. We’re all in agreement that copyright should exist and generally agree on why it should exist. The difference is only in how long it should exist.
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If we were all just disagreeing on the length of the system, then sure. Problem is that extending copyright for eternity, even if it only applies selectively to some works, is not a simple lengthening, but a fundamental change. Same as shortening the copyright length to zero for all. The latter tries to get away with time limited monopoly of distribution, the former tries to remove the public domain aspect.
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We’re still discussing a length change, forever is still a measure of time. Yes it’s a fundamental change to copyright that has nothing to do with the fact that it’s what the basis of the disagreement is. Other factors come in to play as a result of the proposed change which we can also disagree on. But for this discussion if we all agreed it should be say life +70 the rest of the issues drop off.
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It should continue to exist, because without it the reason for it to exist in the first place would go away.
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Yes this is what we’ve all been saying. Though most add that we benefit from the thing it allows to exist.