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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8646204" data-attributes="member: 907">Two things:1. This is a poorly conceived publicity stunt that would not be workable for reasons like international treaties and such.2. That said, current copyright law is far too unbalanced in favor of "creators", who are mostly corps. I put "creators" in quotes because in an enormous majority of cases, the rewards of the current copyright regime are reaped not by the actual humans who create things, but by corps who control market access and demand enormous tolls by creators before they can access the markets.If you could get all other things to work out, I think a reasonable copyright term would be something like 30-40 years. But that would require reworking society so that aging human creators would have other financial safety nets than their long tail of royalties, and that seems hard to do, and a significantly bigger project than copyright reform. A more reasonable compromise term would be something like 70 years, which should suffice for almost every human. Some suggest life+X years, but I don't think it's a good idea to incentivize people to shorten other people's lives to make things hit the public domain sooner.I would also drastically expand the definitions of "fair use", to cover basically everything that doesn't compete with the original product or is a direct translation into another language or medium. For example, diegetic use of a work in another work would be fair use, such as having a poster on a wall in a movie, or someone listening to music in passing. Things like using screenshots with funny commentary ("memes" or reaction gifs), reaction videos, or gameplay videos? All fair use. Creating things to be used with another thing, such as coffee capsules to be used with a coffee machine, or an adventure or sourcebook for use with a game? Sure, go ahead.</blockquote>

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