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Originally Posted by pdurrant
To be able to copy something, one needs the original. If it's not published, only the author has the original.
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
In an ideal world perhaps, but that is frequently incorrect.
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And there are legitimate ways to share work without technically publishing.
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Life +20
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That should be the prison term for corporate executives and politicians who try to abuse copyright.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I voted Some fixed length, renewable a limited number of times.
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I voted that way as well, but truthfully, it's a topic I have thought about quite a bit and I'm not sure if I'm convinced of the best way to reform it yet.
I like copyright, and I want to see its original intention served: Give a LIMITED monopoly to a creator FOR THE PURPOSE OF encouraging them to create FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY.
Modern
profit whores corporations like Disney ignore all the upper case parts of that.
The limited time with renewals is a bit more like patents, which I think do the intended job more fairly than copyright currently does.
ApK