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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7689835" data-attributes="member: 10738">Another good example: in the time between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Tolkien, under a 7 year expiration date, would have seen countless imitations rise up (in theory, just roll with it), probably extinguishing Lord of the Rings from even happening.Star Wars would have barely managed to squeeze out the original three movies before we got official prequels. Yes, sounds like a good deal at first, but they would (and probably could) have been Turkish Star Wars sequels for all we would know....and countless more.Seriously: looking at Dracula's endless regurgitations in film and book (or Shelly's Frankenstein, for example) is actually a compelling argument for why public domain is maybe not as amazing an idea as we like to think of it.EDIT: Put another way....from the artist's perspective, all this does is give your work over to the imitators. The imitators are not engaging in art here, they are exploiting it. A seven year expiration would be a useful formula to cultural stagnation, and would force us all to repurpose the way art in any form is presented....you would need to find a way to monetize a product before it is ever released; any effort to put art out in the wild without locking in the earnings immediately would be a foolish venture. This would lead to creators sitting on content until they can find a way to sell their product such that they can front-load earning and then get the hell out. Then, the imitations and exploits would come in endless waves of &quot;me-too&quot; content trying to make a fast buck. I dunno...it sounds like a really bad way to promote artistic expression.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 7689835, member: 10738"] Another good example: in the time between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Tolkien, under a 7 year expiration date, would have seen countless imitations rise up (in theory, just roll with it), probably extinguishing Lord of the Rings from even happening. Star Wars would have barely managed to squeeze out the original three movies before we got official prequels. Yes, sounds like a good deal at first, but they would (and probably could) have been Turkish Star Wars sequels for all we would know....and countless more. Seriously: looking at Dracula's endless regurgitations in film and book (or Shelly's Frankenstein, for example) is actually a compelling argument for why public domain is maybe not as amazing an idea as we like to think of it. EDIT: Put another way....from the artist's perspective, all this does is give your work over to the imitators. The imitators are not engaging in art here, they are exploiting it. A seven year expiration would be a useful formula to cultural stagnation, and would force us all to repurpose the way art in any form is presented....you would need to find a way to monetize a product before it is ever released; any effort to put art out in the wild without locking in the earnings immediately would be a foolish venture. This would lead to creators sitting on content until they can find a way to sell their product such that they can front-load earning and then get the hell out. Then, the imitations and exploits would come in endless waves of "me-too" content trying to make a fast buck. I dunno...it sounds like a really bad way to promote artistic expression. [/QUOTE]

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