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.
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.
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.
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.