• @arditty
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    21 year ago

    That’s a great article, I strongly agree.

    I feel like copyright hurts competition and creativity by letting publishers and studios put out a relatively small number of successful works, and then ride that success for years.

    If copyright terms were much shorter with no provision for renewal, it would spur a lot of creativity and competition between studios and publishers because they would effectively be forced to keep coming out with new, high quality content in order to stay relevant.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yes, I agree with you. A suggestion I’ve might have read on Techdirt is to limit copyright to 5 years with a one time option to extend it for 5 years. Most works lose profitability within 5 years so the only ones impacted would be the most successful and the companies. I’m totally ok with that.

      Just imagine what public libraries and streaming sites like Netflix could/would look like if anything from ten years back would be free to share.