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Originally Posted by issybird
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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Since we often see companies wait until patents expire to make their millions off of them rather than licensing them early, I'm not sure this is so. I'm not sure it's a sufficient reason to extend the term, but I don't think it's silly. Not all works are pop-culture-timing sensitive, and many, as I mentioned earlier, are well ahead of their time. I'm waffling again. Good thread!