• @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    Sure, and there’s no reason it can’t include other art and culture, like TV shows, radio programs, etc. The main issue is the length of time before those become legal to redistribute. It sucks that only movies made in the early 1900s are legal to redistribute, when the most culturally relevant works are still 50+ years away from entering the public domain.

    So we should be looking at shortening that time, trying to end copyright entirely isn’t going to happen.

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      13 months ago

      Shortening the time is good, and adjusting it while it still does apply to allow for more legal free sharing of the work.

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        13 months ago

        The problem is that copyright owners are concerned about losing sales, they care much less whether you’re making a profit on that lost sale.

        One thing I think we should do is require stores to allow transfer of copyright. So if I buy a game or movie, I should be able to give that game or movie to someone else. I would no longer have access to it, so it would be like giving a physical disk or whatever.