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An author can't afford to register, even at a token cost, every rough draft or story outline, in order to keep publishers from grabbing the submission from a slushpile & publishing it w/o permission. A photographer can't register each of a hundred photos before submitting them for consideration to a magazine. Even if they could all be registered at once, the time-delay involved is ridiculous. I have no problems with copyright protection starting from the moment of creation (although I could really go for a requirement to affix a notice to things, to indicate who owns that copyright), and registration coming later, either in order to deal with a lawsuit, or after 20-50 years, to continue the monopoly on commercial exploitation. And moving from our current situation, rather than the one that existed before copyright was attached to everything automatically, there's other issues--every blog post is currently copyrighted, so nobody can grab a set of them and publish "funniest anecdotes from the internet 2010" without permission. Changing the law back, would require either notifying all those people (!) that they need to put notices on their works, or making a rule that "content created between ~1989 and 2012 doesn't require a copyright notice; after that, works published, including on the web, without a notice, are in the public domain." Of course, that immediately tangles into the Berne convention; countries still following it would not require that notice, and it'd bring up issues of "what country is this web content published in?" (Is it based on the location of the author? The author's ISP? The location of the servers of the web content host? If I post at MR, am I covered by Canadian copyright law, and when I post at Dreamwidth, by US copyright law?) Is big tangled mess. |
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As for existing art, a copyright is maintained until a certain date, with anything not submitted for copyright to fall into the public domain. It's not insurmountable. (I wonder whether somebody could invoke copyright to prevent a confession from being used...Hmmm...) |
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The current reg system is ridiculously overburdened; the copyright office is drastically under-funded. Online registration has an 18-month-and-growing backlog. More money could fix that--but I guarantee there will not be enough to require registration of everything before publication. Example: I have a blog. I have 7+ years of LiveJournal entries that have been imported to Dreamwidth. I have vague thoughts of consolidating some of those posts into a book someday--perhaps "Elf's philosophy of modern Paganism." Right now, I don't have to do anything to protect them from commercial exploitation by someone else. Require registration, and I have to register every.single.blog.post before I put it online. Every forum comment. I chat freely in forums because I know that, if I come up with a particular compelling argument, a twist of understanding that really works, or if I am struck by poetic inspiration--I can save that post, that comment, and decide later if I want to publish it. Certainly, nobody else is allowed to exploit it without my permission. If registration is required before I get copyright protection, I'd stop participating in public forums. (And I'm sure, very few people would mind. I'm using myself as an example here--I know several dozen pro authors would also slam their blogs shut.) Currently, and previously with the required-notice but not reg until later system, the copyright of drafts were subsumed into the final registered version. But if you get rid of copyright aside from formally registered items, that protection is gone--the author needs to register each different version. If he writes 4 different endings for a short story, trying to decide which one to print, he'll need to register all four--or risk that, if one gets found in his notes ten years later, someone can grab the alternate & publish it without his permission. Our current business world needs copyright to work before formal registration; remove that protection and communication will grind to a halt while everyone figures out what they need or want to protect. A lot more private forums would show up, with requirement of signed contracts that you won't copy any of the contents elsewhere. Replacing law with private contracts is often a really bad idea (that's what brought us geo-restrictions and EULAs). Quote:
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Copyright in the end will become a footnote, a global historical footnote, but something that we will simply have to move beyond eventually. ![]() |
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