Thread: Copyright Reform Poll
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Old 04-09-2020, 09:46 AM   #69
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob View Post
One big reason I see is the way media interacts with books. If copyrights expired after 20-25 years, the only incentive for moviemakers to compensate authors would be to get a jump on other moviemakers. Why pay money for Ready Player One, Starship Troopers, or Harry Potter if you can just wait a few years and do it anyways? The movie industry will make 100s of millions of dollars off of the books, and the authors would see essentially nothing.
This is just silly. 25 years is forever, in popular culture terms. It’s compounded by saying that they stand to make hundreds of millions; if that’s so, they’d want to get a start on that now and not push it out 25 years! Any would-be media exploiter who thought he could wait would be run over in the stampede to secure the rights to the most popular works of the day.
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