It seems to me that the copyright arguments blend two different things.
1) the work overall.
2) the characters/worlds/whatever the work contains.
I think that the 30 years someone above advocated for works overall is a good length of time. If it hasn't made a profit by then it isn't going to.
But the cgaracters or other intellectual works within the copyrighted work can have a much longer life. Think mickey mouse. The little blighter has been going on for decades through indidual works. One might make profits from mickey for at least ninety-nine years.
So give the intelectual property within a work 99 years. Give the work overall 30 years.
Yes, cutting the dividing line between those two could be quite tricky. A very well written law would be needed. That's a good reason why someone outside of congress/parliament is needed to write the thing...
This is an interesting idea. Myth could simulate this by using a dedicated bittorrent-like system to trade anaonymised play lists. Each machine keeps a statistical record of what it has "seen" via the torrent. Similar effect but fully distributed.
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1) the work overall. 2) the characters/worlds/whatever the work contains.
I think that the 30 years someone above advocated for works overall is a good length of time. If it hasn't made a profit by then it isn't going to.
But the cgaracters or other intellectual works within the copyrighted work can have a much longer life. Think mickey mouse. The little blighter has been going on for decades through indidual works. One might make profits from mickey for at least ninety-nine years.
So give the intelectual property within a work 99 years. Give the work overall 30 years.
Yes, cutting the dividing line between those two could be quite tricky. A very well written law would be needed. That's a good reason why someone outside of congress/parliament is needed to write the thing...
This is an interesting idea. Myth could simulate this by using a dedicated bittorrent-like system to trade anaonymised play lists. Each machine keeps a statistical record of what it has "seen" via the torrent. Similar effect but fully distributed.