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.
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.
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.