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Originally Posted by synaesthetic
I'll never concede any part of this debate to the content gatekeepers until they agree to limit copyright terms to the old 14 years. The current limit of 72 years after the creator's death is just fucking disgusting.
It's better that stuff enters the public domain faster. Without the ability to sit on a single IP for decades, innovation and creativity will be the name of the game, not simply buying up the rights to all the popular IPs.
Edit: Also more software needs to be published under the GPL. I can haz source code?  |
very much agree
a manufacturer of a product must put in a great amount of time/money in R&D, patents, prototyping, testing, tooling, materials, before it's even able to be distributed
and 15 years later see everyone run off with his/her hard work
If you write a catchy song and it scores, you and your childen and your grandchildren can sit on your asses untill the end of your life, or better said: those that own the 'rights'