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Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it (walledculture.org)

submitted 4 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can have that library today (see: Project Gutenberg), just on a delay. The problem, IMO, is that the delay is much too long. If copyright only lasted 10 years, it would be much more useful as a store of human knowledge. We could even allow an application for a longer term for smaller creators who need more time to monetize their works.

That's pretty close to how it used to work in the US, it has just been twisted by large orgs like Disney and the RIAA.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Project Gutenberg really demonstrates how this is all pretty much already built, just illegal to include recent works in. Though of course that's just books where the post copyright free library could also include all other art and culture such as tv, radio, movies, images, games, etc

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 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.