Copyright

[andrewducker]

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.

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

I definitely disagree.

Having seen Superman images used in pornography give to kids, I shudder at the thought of such icons as Bats and Supes becoming public property in thrity years time.

Why should anything created become Public Domain? Because you create something , the 'public' automatically has a right to it, to use it? What a load of arse.

If anything, the re-use of already established iconography only stifles creativity - which is surely far worse.

I think you're viewing this from the POV of big corporations hogging things. Bull. Firstly, the creators sell out to big corporations - look to Bill Watterson as an example of an artist, with integrity, who DIDN'T want his creation in the Public Domain. Think about copyright laws the next time you see an innocent icon, such as Superman, starring in a porn comic being read by the kid in your street....

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I think there is virtue in the old 28 years, renewable for 28 more, but I'd prefer 20 years, renewable for 20 more. I'd also say that only the original copyright owner could renew it. Selling an IP should definitely mean that it was unrenewable - I have nothing but contempt for the laws that allow large corporations to control most IPs in the First World. I better reason/excuse for IP piracy I cannot imagine.