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mikeloeven · 07-12-2013, 04:45 PM

what they should do is make copyright more like patents where they have to be continuously renewed that way they allow authors to make the initial profits but encourage authors to release to public domain faster by making it costly to renew copyright on material that is older no longer popular.

this also applies to a genre of older software called abandonware. still technically copyrighted but distributed freely because the company that made it is out of business or has abandoned it therefor there is noone left to enforce it

07-12-2013, 04:45 PM	#64
mikeloeven Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: windows 7	what they should do is make copyright more like patents where they have to be continuously renewed that way they allow authors to make the initial profits but encourage authors to release to public domain faster by making it costly to renew copyright on material that is older no longer popular. this also applies to a genre of older software called abandonware. still technically copyrighted but distributed freely because the company that made it is out of business or has abandoned it therefor there is noone left to enforce it Last edited by mikeloeven; 07-12-2013 at 04:48 PM.