arstechnica.com— A Cambridge researcher says that, according to economic calculations, the ideal length of time for copyright protection is a mere 14 years.
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I work in an IP department for a software company, I research this stuff all the time. The founding fathers made copyrights last 14 years, and made them renewable at the 14 year mark. This researchers from Cambridge just up and confirmed what the framers knew 220 years ago.
Society is built upon the back of...suprise, surprise...society! When IP work enters the culture of the human species, it really belongs to the species and the species references that as it goes forward. All human work is derivative. What's happened is that the IP holders (media giants) have taken it to the extreme claiming ALL new work is somehow a derivative of what they done and that they're owed royalties.Take Star Wars. You truly think that was a completely original concept? The movie itself is quite derivative of stories told since the beginning of time. Nearly all Disney cartoons are simply re-tellings of traditional fables. AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. What is wrong is companies like Disney lobbying government to forever change the laws to give them indefinite rights for eternity. They've effectively broken the chain of derivative works that only benefits society in the long run.
Exactly. AFAIK, most copyright term extensions in the US have been after intense lobbying from Disney, so that their first cartoons with Mickey Mouse won't fall into the public domain.
what you just said has just left science, my friend, and entered philosophy. Why do we need to make the choice that is best for the greater good? Where does science say dictatorships are bad? Where does science say extinction and pollution are bad? It doesn't. It tells you what will(or might) happen, but it doesn't tell you what to do.
manchowderJul 13, 2007
I work in an IP department for a software company, I research this stuff all the time. The founding fathers made copyrights last 14 years, and made them renewable at the 14 year mark. This researchers from Cambridge just up and confirmed what the framers knew 220 years ago.
joeyjojoJul 13, 2007
Society is built upon the back of...suprise, surprise...society! When IP work enters the culture of the human species, it really belongs to the species and the species references that as it goes forward. All human work is derivative. What's happened is that the IP holders (media giants) have taken it to the extreme claiming ALL new work is somehow a derivative of what they done and that they're owed royalties.Take Star Wars. You truly think that was a completely original concept? The movie itself is quite derivative of stories told since the beginning of time. Nearly all Disney cartoons are simply re-tellings of traditional fables. AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. What is wrong is companies like Disney lobbying government to forever change the laws to give them indefinite rights for eternity. They've effectively broken the chain of derivative works that only benefits society in the long run.
haggieJul 13, 2007
Somewhere at Disney an artist is drawing a cartoon of Rufus Pollock sodomizing Mickey Mouse.
init100Jul 13, 2007
Exactly. AFAIK, most copyright term extensions in the US have been after intense lobbying from Disney, so that their first cartoons with Mickey Mouse won't fall into the public domain.
init100Jul 13, 2007
This isn't a new idea. Such protection is called a patent.
capicrimmJul 14, 2007
what you just said has just left science, my friend, and entered philosophy. Why do we need to make the choice that is best for the greater good? Where does science say dictatorships are bad? Where does science say extinction and pollution are bad? It doesn't. It tells you what will(or might) happen, but it doesn't tell you what to do.