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In Perpetuity |
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7 | 3.66% |
50+ Years |
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32 | 16.75% |
20-30 Years |
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50 | 26.18% |
10-20 Years |
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33 | 17.28% |
10-20 Years with renewal option for 10-20 more |
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45 | 23.56% |
25 Years with option for public referendum to nullify |
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4 | 2.09% |
10 Years with option for public referendum to nullify |
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15 | 7.85% |
What's Copyright? |
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5 | 2.62% |
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I wonder, does anyone agree with the current law regarding copyright term - author's life + 70 years?
I voted 10-20 years with renewal, but I can see the other options being valid, up to and including the author's life or the author's life and surviving spouse's life. But life + 70 is outrageous in my opinion. |
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My primary objection to the current copyright is consideration of all the titles in America that will likely never make it into [legal] ebook form. |
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Heh, wouldn't it be funny if they were put on a random server at google that held only copies of the orphaned works, and the id was something like admin and password for the password. Basically, begging for people to log in, and copy the stuff?
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Is Google scanning all books? I thought it was just older, lesser-used public domain stuff, but then again I haven't been paying much attention. I'm glad to hear that.
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Return to ancien law
The Founding Fathers defined a 15 years copyright, with an additional 15 years if the publisher ask for it and the book is still in print. It seems to me a fair compromise. And if the author or publisher want a longer protection, they must make a new or improved book from the first text. Think of the actual law in France 70 years after author death: Levi Strauss famous book "Tristes tropiques" written 1955, the author died 2010, 100 years old; copyright to 2080, 125 years !
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I select 20-30, but for some reason I've often felt 40 years was a sweet spot. Like the old 20+20, but without the need to register. Copyright date + 40 years. New editions treated as new titles.
40 years seems like a fair period to earn royalties off your work - more than twice the time given to patents. A 25 year old author will still be raking it in at 65, and has had 40 years to do as the rest of us workers do (or do not) and put something aside for retirement. The life+70 nonsense is all about corporate copyrights, which, in my opinion, do the exact opposite of the copyright's intention: to encourage creativity by giving the author an exclusive license to their works for a period of time. The current model discourages creativity since corporations will just keep creating "me too" spinoffs and derivatives of existing work. I mean, really, how many great Disney creations have we seen in the last 20 years that weren't originated by Pixar, a company without an 80 year "vault"? Not only is Disney sure to try for life+80 in another 10 years, but they've already tried to get perpetual copyright on Mickey Mouse and friends because they are "American Icons." ![]() |
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I feel there's an enormous difference between automatic perpetual copyright, and a limited fixed copyright only extended by registration and renewals.
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You mean works that weren't based on something else? Uhm... Darkwing Duck? Even still, that had Launchpad McQuack from Duck Tales, which that was based on the characters of Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Louie, and Dewey.
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