> The original term was 14 years, with one 14 year renewal allowed.
> This was probably a little short
Strongly disagree. And for anything that's distributed digitally it's an eternity.
The goal should be that as an adult you can build on the things you grew up with as a child. Anything longer than that is absurd. Remember that copyright is an infringement on your right to free speech so should need extraordinary evidence for that any additional second of the copyright term actually fulfils its constitutional purpose. You don't need to allow maximum commercial exploitation to encourage more works. In fact I would question if commercial exploitation is something that needs to be made possible at all considering that humans are naturally driven to be creative and we have a giant corpus of creative works to fall back on which can now be copied and distributed easier than ever.
The current terms that won't even let your grandchildren benefit from the work your generation funded are an outright affront to the spirit of the constitution. At this point we would be better off scrapping the whole concept of copyright.
> And for anything that's distributed digitally it's an eternity.
On the flip side, there's a fair bit of fiction, etc, where the same author has been acting as steward of the series for 35 years. Having them still get proceeds from book 1 is an important part of the calculus to continue. There's a balance to be struck here.
I do think there should be a significant fee at renewal.
> The current terms that won't even let your grandchildren benefit from the work your generation funded are an outright affront to the spirit of the constitution.
The current terms are absurd, agreed.
> At this point we would be better off scrapping the whole concept of copyright.
Nah; I like there being a market to make expensive works of intellectual property, which depends upon copyright.
> This was probably a little short
Strongly disagree. And for anything that's distributed digitally it's an eternity.
The goal should be that as an adult you can build on the things you grew up with as a child. Anything longer than that is absurd. Remember that copyright is an infringement on your right to free speech so should need extraordinary evidence for that any additional second of the copyright term actually fulfils its constitutional purpose. You don't need to allow maximum commercial exploitation to encourage more works. In fact I would question if commercial exploitation is something that needs to be made possible at all considering that humans are naturally driven to be creative and we have a giant corpus of creative works to fall back on which can now be copied and distributed easier than ever.
The current terms that won't even let your grandchildren benefit from the work your generation funded are an outright affront to the spirit of the constitution. At this point we would be better off scrapping the whole concept of copyright.