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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Patents last 14 to 20 years.
What I'd *really* like to see is paid extensions: 15 years copyright for free, +15 more for a $500 registration fee (which you'll do if you think you have any chance of exploiting it in the future), +15 more for a $5000 reg fee (only corporations would bother, for the most part, but an instant classic might get re-registered), and +15 more for $25,000. Every 15 additional years: another $25k. Disney can keep the mouse under lockdown by paying the government--and by extension, the public--for the right to keep the public away from what's supposed to be ours. |
$25k for the classics Disney lifted from the PD, and LotR? Why? :|
More like 25k per week for every week after the first 15 years. 1600$ per year is a joke, for the stuff your children will be required to watch while growing up.