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What will enter the public domain in 2026?

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Post by csallen »

reshlo wrote: post #378
csallen wrote: post #342

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> the law only rewards specific kinds of risk with equity ownership over the venture I would argue that it's not solely the law rewarding that kind of risk, it's the market. There is no law that says that only equity owners can enjoy massive profits. Some employees get paid 7 figures, 8 figures, or more, even without equity. Generally speaking, the rewards go to the hardest parts, the riskiest parts, the parts with t…

People who end up leading successful companies are often able to do so not because they’re more willing to take risks than others, but rather because they have experienced more good luck than others. Take Bill Gates, for example. His parents sent him to an exclusive private school, which afforded him regular access to computers from an early age, giving him valuable experience that most others his age could not acces…

Luck is always going to play a role. No one has ever said that life is fair, and no system is based on life being fair. One of the many reasons that progressive taxation is justified.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?

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Post by kmeisthax »

shagie wrote: post #348
kmeisthax wrote: post #344

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> If one wants to try to set another floor, it involves every country in the WTO to agree on that. This is less of a tough sell than you think. In pretty much every IP-related trade negotiation, you can divide the world into two categories: * Ultra-rich countries that want to push through every insane IP idea they have (life+50, DMCA 1201, etc) onto as many other countries as possible * Everyone else Notably, the ult…

The US couldn't drop to the Berne floor... because it is a member of the WTO and restricted by TRIPS which has a floor of 50 years. Going to anything less than 50 years would entail leaving the WTO and backing out of TRIPS. That in turn would be disastrous to the companies that work with information (music, movies, microcode (software), and ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶p̶i̶z̶z̶a̶ ̶d̶e̶l̶i̶v̶e̶r̶y̶). Want to do away with re…

The only three blocs at the WTO who would meaningfully oppose renegotiating TRIPS to lower the copyright floor are the US, EU, and Japan. If all three of them say "let's lower the floor", it's getting lowered. The fact that they cannot unilaterally do this does not mean their hands are tied, especially not when they are the ones tying other people's hands.

> On the other hand, want to make it so that anyone can wholesale copy my photographs and sell them for pennies after a few years? No.

The Berne floor is way longer than "a few years".

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