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we'll lose it like the great library of alexander
I think you mean Alexandria.
Still a shadow of its former self though.
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Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
Year zero through five: free
Year six: $500
Year seven: $1000
Year eight: $2500
Year nine: $5000
Year ten: $10,000
Year eleven: $25,000
Year twelve: $50,000
Year thirteen: $100,000
Year fourteen: $250,000
Year fifteen: $500,000
Year sixteen: $1,000,000
Year seventeen: $2,500,000
Year eighteen: $5,000,000
Year nineteen: $10,000,000
Year twenty: $25,000,000
...
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Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
That’s because the contract he signed with his employers did not include an agreement where he continued to get paid for when water flowed through the ditches. Some artists will have a contract for a lump sum, others will have agreements for every time their record is played.
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Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
Copyright should be an annual fee that increases by year. Year zero through five: free Year six: $500 Year seven: $1000 Year eight: $2500 Year nine: $5000 Year ten: $10,000 Year eleven: $25,000 Year twelve: $50,000 Year thirteen: $100,000 Year fourteen: $250,000 Year fifteen: $500,000 Year sixteen: $1,000,000 Year seventeen: $2,500,000 Year eighteen: $5,000,000 Year nineteen: $10,000,000 Year twenty: $25,000,000 ...
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Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
I was thinking about this last night. Should I use a license agreement that gives my proprietary software to the public domain when I die? What about my open source software that I can no longer maintain? In my case, the software is probably not popular enough to continue without me. Should it keep a GPL license or be converted to MIT or to public domain?
What if I do have a hit someday and it provides income to me? My family might rely on that income, at least for a time, if I die early. I’d love to give a business to my kids and them to their kids.
Anyway, just rambling. I agree that copyright is probably too long.
This does not make me want to support record labels
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Courts have ruled that merely executing an exe file is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM. That's how deep it goes. The reason no users are violating copyright when running software normally is because of a special exception for software in the Copyright Act.
How about skip protection in portable CD players? It loads bit ahead of time into a little buffer of RAM.
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Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
Some VC will come up with a "drainage as a service" or "uber for drainage" model that lets them extract more value from ditches.
@PracticalEngineeringChannel on YouTube has plenty of videos on engineering drainage systems.
The movie and music business sure spends a lot of money fighting piracy. This fruitless endeavor draws a lot of parallels with the war on drugs.
Neither were fruitless. The RIAA keeps the price of culture high, and the war on drugs kept the price of drugs high.