a perennial favorite topic of debate. sound off in the replies.

  • ffmike@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    As a published author, I’m glad copyright existed. Without it, none of my publishers would have been in business and I would have had to find some other income source. But I think the default should be “public domain” rather than “copyright”, and I’m skeptical of allowing corporations to own the copyright to individuals’ works.

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      1 year ago

      Do you think that those publishers would be significantly worse off if the copyright length was, say, 20-40 years rather than the 70 years used by most of the western world nowadays?

      • ffmike@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Well, most of my work was programming books, so honestly a 5 year copyright term would have been plenty. But the internet put most of those publishers out of business anyhow.

        Outside of my own special case, I don’t have really strong opinions on the term.