Quote: CattyNebulart wrote:
I think 15 years is too long, but it would be the longest copyright term I would support.
Yeah, if the copyright were fifteen years I would not bother being a writer.
I can see your point about colaborative works like movies or video games. However I think you could still base the movies around the lifetime of the person who
wrote the script. In the case of other collaborative works (like co-written novels) just use the lifespan of all people involved.
And I personally don't see it being an issue with computer programs. Five years or five hundred years won't much matter one way or another. Software
becomes obsolete within two or three years anyway.
And no, "lifetime" is not too long. It's been "lifetime" for a good hundred years now and no, we have not experienced some horrific
crahs in the creative market of the world. If you can't wait for Rowling to die before you can buy legal copies of Snape/Harry fancomics... well,
personalyl I will not weep for that.
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