Mickey mouse? Naw, didn't think so.
They will claim that the author (Walt Disney) is not dead, just frozen in sleep, so copyright doesn’t expire.
What will enter the public domain in 2022
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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.
What about the creator who has a wife and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident?
Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
Disney has plenty of derivative dribble. One might even argue they've had to buy other creators to escape their old strategy of rehashing pre-copyright fairytales. People will create even if the long tail of profit is cut short.
It's "drivel". But you're totally right.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#54Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…
> Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire?
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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#55Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…
The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
...Which explains why there was no great art made before 1998, right?
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#56Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…
What’s the incentive for spending any resources on creative works, or research and development? The twilight fanfic 50 shades of gray benefited from becoming its own brand as did league of legends from DOTA which was derived from warcraft, when blizzard was making a warhammer 40K game, so you’re not making a great point.
Why would we believe that the incentive is materially different if copyright is 50 or 30 years rather than 100? The vast majority of earnings on a creative work are in the few decades immediately following release. Who is going "I won't write this book because it might make me money for only 30 years rather than 100"?
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#57Winnie-the-Pooh !
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the incentive for spending any resources on creative works, or research and development? The twilight fanfic 50 shades of gray benefited from becoming its own brand as did league of legends from DOTA which was derived from warcraft, when blizzard was making a warhammer 40K game, so you’re not making a great point.
Why would we believe that the incentive is materially different if copyright is 50 or 30 years rather than 100? The vast majority of earnings on a creative work are in the few decades immediately following release. Who is going "I won't write this book because it might make me money for only 30 years rather than 100"?
Historically there might be just as many authors (and other artists) who’s works didn’t become popular and make money until after their death, as those that became rich and famous during their lifetime.
Of course it seems “times are a changin” and the vast majority of fame comes in the form of a viral and fleeting 15 minutes. Perhaps the law could catch up with the times, by having life imitate art and literally give copyright protection no more than 15 minutes.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#59A lot of the early SD card patents are expiring, so maybe soon we won't have to pay SD association in order to use the 4-pin data mode on SD cards.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.
What about the creator who has a wife and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident? Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
What does the average person have to do to provide their family this kind of security?
I don't think copyright needs to do double duty as life insurance and it is mostly not helpless widows that are benefitting from it.