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Originally Posted by shalym
This is why I chose "fixed length, renewable indefinitely". It keeps the mouse house happy, so that they don't keep trying to get the law changed, and it should stop orphaned works.
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That is anti-consumer. Essentially everything not orphaned would be renewed forever unless the annual fee was like x100,000 per unit profit.
Genuinely orphaned works, despite what Google claims, are rare. Most common after the days when there were a lot of game developers that went bust and no bigger studio took over the IP because the game platform was dead or gamers wanted more features eye/candy.
Very very rare with Cinema, TV, books, music.
Anyone want an Apple Pippin? Or an MSX console? Or a Dreamcast? Or even a GP2X?