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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2003-06-11 08:55 pm

Copyright

Go here, open the Flash version. Boggle at the state of the Public Domain.

No time to explain my feelings right now, but goddamit there ought to be a 20 year limit on all copyright.

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2003-06-12 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I feel the same way about creative control. Once a person is dead (or at most once their immediate family is dead), then no one should have the right to control the IP and it would be freely available to everyone.

Of course, the only reason copyrights are getting longer now is the Disney (an evil corporation if there ever was one) is willing to utterly destroy the entire justification for copyright before they will risk letting go of Mickey Mouse. I'll celebrate the day Mickey goes out of copyright simply to celebrate Disney losing.