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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7689791" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>I was thinking something similar. My suggestion is that copyright should last 7 years from the date of publication, period.</p><p></p><p>I've thought about this. So let's take Harry Potter. 7 years from the time the first book is published, people can feel free to start using any of the characters or materials in it to write, publish, and sell their own novels, etc. J.K Rowling hasn't finished the series at that point. Oh no, competition! Seriously, does anyone really think that any significant number of people who liked the series are going to <em>not</em> buy the final official books because someone writes a knock-off alternate future (regardless of how good it might end up being)? Plus, the only IP that is out of copyright is from the first book at that point. So they can't just write their own version of the last book, because they don't have access to any of the material since then.</p><p></p><p>What it <em>will</em> do is encourage the arts. Which is <em>precisely</em> what copyright was created for. To encourage the arts by making sure the author is entitle to a reasonable remuneration for their works. Otherwise, back in the day, you could write a book and publish a small print run. Someone could buy a copy, then set up a printing press and publish their own print run of <em>your</em> work, and maybe even make more off of it than you. Doesn't really encourage you to share your art does it? Hence the wonderful invention of copyright. But times have changed and current implementations are doing exactly the opposite of the original intent--they are <em>discouraging</em> the creation of art.</p><p></p><p>So my suggestion is keep the concept, change the expiration to 7 years, no renewals, no exceptions. It's a better fit for our current technology and economics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7689791, member: 6677017"] I was thinking something similar. My suggestion is that copyright should last 7 years from the date of publication, period. I've thought about this. So let's take Harry Potter. 7 years from the time the first book is published, people can feel free to start using any of the characters or materials in it to write, publish, and sell their own novels, etc. J.K Rowling hasn't finished the series at that point. Oh no, competition! Seriously, does anyone really think that any significant number of people who liked the series are going to [I]not[/I] buy the final official books because someone writes a knock-off alternate future (regardless of how good it might end up being)? Plus, the only IP that is out of copyright is from the first book at that point. So they can't just write their own version of the last book, because they don't have access to any of the material since then. What it [I]will[/I] do is encourage the arts. Which is [I]precisely[/I] what copyright was created for. To encourage the arts by making sure the author is entitle to a reasonable remuneration for their works. Otherwise, back in the day, you could write a book and publish a small print run. Someone could buy a copy, then set up a printing press and publish their own print run of [I]your[/I] work, and maybe even make more off of it than you. Doesn't really encourage you to share your art does it? Hence the wonderful invention of copyright. But times have changed and current implementations are doing exactly the opposite of the original intent--they are [I]discouraging[/I] the creation of art. So my suggestion is keep the concept, change the expiration to 7 years, no renewals, no exceptions. It's a better fit for our current technology and economics. [/QUOTE]
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