You’ve all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?
You’ve all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?
Copyright should exist but not the forever bullshit that Disney made it in the 20th century.
An artist should have the right to copyright their work for a reasonable time to be able to profit from it. Say 25 years, after that is becomes public domaine.
Copyright should not be transferable nor inheritable.
Personally I think it’s reasonable for it to be inheritable as long as we’re talking about the relatively short timeframe that copyright was originally supposed to last. The prototypical example is the poor artist who creates a much-loved and successful work shortly before death; should their partner not be entitled to live off the proceeds of that?
Personally, my preference would be for 20 years, full stop. But I think a reasonable compromise position would be 20 years or the lifetime of the author, whichever is longer. Corporate-owned works and works-for-hire only get 20 years.