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Old 05-19-2010, 09:55 AM   #96
Iphinome
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How are these things created for society when society never gets them? Walt Disney died in 1966 when do we get the short film he made with a mouse that completely ripped off a Buster Keaton movie? He did it 82 years ago! When are the people protected by copyright going to pay for that protection by letting go? But maybe you're right after all he would have never created his ripoff if he didn't know there'd be a DMCA and the copyright would last until 2023 at minimum even though copyright law at the time allowed a maximum of 56 years.

By supporting US copyright laws as they stand you discourage new creation because nothing in the past 80 years can be used to build on. There was plenty of new material before 1978 before life+ copyrights in the US I don't see how you could argue it takes 100 years of copyright to get anything, patents get by with only 20 years.

Anyway, why should there be any incentive to create? If the stuff isn't going to end up in the public domain why should society care if anyone makes money or makes it at all. You care because copyright is how you line your pockets but what have you ever given in exchange for the protection? Your profits are taxed but your creation hasn't been yet and won't be till after you die, long after you die. You took from my culture to create, my language, my history things that belong to the human race to me, to your plumber, to the cashier at the supermarket. You owe them. You owe me. So here's the deal, you get a reasonable finite amount of time and then you return what you took then we both have an incentive for copyright. Let's call it 28 years, that's a long time and if you're still alive in 28 what the hell have 28 more and then no more that's it, come up with something else. Don't whine and bitch about what's yours because 56 years is long enough.
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