(05-19-2018, 06:15 PM)Dartz Wrote: But, the whole point of copyright is to incentivise the creation of new works by giving an exclusive right to them for a defined period...
....if there's no end to that defined period then surely there's no incentive to do anything new.
As modern pop music seems to suggest. Fuckin Ed Sheeran....
No, the entire point of copyright is to make the copyright holders rich into perpetuity. Or what else do you think all those big media corporations are doing?
Disney is actually one of the worst offenders too.
(This leaves aside that the actual point of copyright was to protect artists of any stripe the exclusive right to produce any copies of their own work and to smack down anyone attempting to profiteer of them. Like if a big, far reaching publishing company gets a copy of your manuscript for a new children's book and publishes it without even filing the serial numbers off of it, while paying you nothing. Copyright lets the author walk to a court and say 'that stuff's mine and I say they've no permission to make those copies', and unless the company can hand over a contract that says otherwise and how the author is compensated that company is in big trouble.)