Roald Dahl has been dead for nearly 33 years. What moral right do the owners of his work have to create a monopoly on it? What a joke current copyright law is.
That's not ironic that's standard procedure. If you take a hard look at almost every regulatory lawmaking, you'll see that almost all of it stiffles upstarting competition, because while it may be annoying for the bigboys it's almost always a hurdle to high for small startups with ideas that could disrupt the status quo.
Indeed. The original intent was to promote the arts by making sure an author wouldn't see their work immediately pirated.
Now the author's great-grandchildren are getting copyright protection ... an no incentive to create anything other than more extensions in the hope of getting more blood out of the stone.
That's ridiculous. Also, isn't mickey mouse soon coming up again to become public domain? I remember reading something like that a bit ago. But yeah, 100 years is ridiculous. I get having your children have the rights to something you have made, maybe even your grandchildren but the grandchildren of your grandchildren?you made enough money at that point with your works.
It is ridiculous. The intent of copyright, trademarks, and patents was to allow the creator to receive a profit for a period of time. The reason they expired after something like 20 years was to encourage the creator to keep creating rather than just have one big hit and rake in cash forever.
The original version of Mickey Mouse becomes public domain next year, but not to worry:
Even though the copyright will expire, Mickey Mouse is trademarked, which adds complications. The New York Times reported that trademarks do not expire over time like copyrights do. Essentially, this means that any use of the 1928 Mickey Mouse cannot include any elements that come later and cannot be confused as a Disney product.
It's also long enough for something to become a cultural object. A story read to you as a child that you might now be reading to your own, if you hadn't already.
Roald Dahl has been dead for nearly 33 years. What moral right do the owners of his work have to create a monopoly on it? What a joke current copyright law is.
You can thank Disney for that. Every time their core characters start to enter public domain they lobby Congress to extend copyrights even longer.
They were either 20 years or the life of the author originally, I can't remember exactly. Now they last something like 100 years.
It's particularly ironic because much of Disney's success came from adapting works in the public domain, like fairy tales.
Wow, that's not just ironic. That's evil. They're like a reverse Ben Franklin, who didn't believe in patenting his inventions.
That's not ironic that's standard procedure. If you take a hard look at almost every regulatory lawmaking, you'll see that almost all of it stiffles upstarting competition, because while it may be annoying for the bigboys it's almost always a hurdle to high for small startups with ideas that could disrupt the status quo.
Indeed. The original intent was to promote the arts by making sure an author wouldn't see their work immediately pirated.
Now the author's great-grandchildren are getting copyright protection ... an no incentive to create anything other than more extensions in the hope of getting more blood out of the stone.
That's ridiculous. Also, isn't mickey mouse soon coming up again to become public domain? I remember reading something like that a bit ago. But yeah, 100 years is ridiculous. I get having your children have the rights to something you have made, maybe even your grandchildren but the grandchildren of your grandchildren?you made enough money at that point with your works.
It is ridiculous. The intent of copyright, trademarks, and patents was to allow the creator to receive a profit for a period of time. The reason they expired after something like 20 years was to encourage the creator to keep creating rather than just have one big hit and rake in cash forever.
The original version of Mickey Mouse becomes public domain next year, but not to worry:
It's also long enough for something to become a cultural object. A story read to you as a child that you might now be reading to your own, if you hadn't already.