Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.
In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.
An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.
That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.
Reform #copyright!
Iron Curtain (Chiptunes)
@Ispod4 @rysiek All of my original music work is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial US 3.0, and I've written it into my will that when I die, all my work will enter the public domain.
I don't want to have an estate or trust; I want the public to do what they want at will after I cease to be.
Your Beloved Issy
@rysiek While totally agreed, I don't trust it to happen quickly
Stuff like this is why I'm adamant of folks creating new content under CC0, if only to help expand the public domain without having to wait for term expirations
Iron Curtain (Chiptunes)
@Ispod4 @rysiek In case you want to purchase/download my music, here's my bandcamp: https://ironcurtain.bandcamp.com
Bafty
Great page here about works entering the public domain - and including some extra analysis about copyright generally:
* an analysis about attempts to keep Sherlock Holmes locked down that should (🤞) be guide for Disney
* section on saving silent films and the inadvertent destruction due to copyright
* the effects of copyright harmonisation due to trade deals between countries.
Machine Grrrl
@rysiek It is one of my worst enemies as a film historian. I restore old films but copyright keep me from accessing and saving films. They eventually end up being destroyed by time, or poor storage, or just locked away in some archive. Films donated to archives can be locked away even longer due to other rights, rights made by those who donate. They can keep films away from people just because they say so. Art is under threat by many factors but copyright is one of the worst.
Quantium 40
@rysiek Very good post! I think two things are important to understand:
1. Any copyright that goes beyond the death of the author only serves the companies. It has nothing to do with respect for the author or the work itself.
2. Copyrights block rights that the society should have: As any work has some real-live inspiration from society, it is only fair that the society gets access to the work after a few years. Also it is important for the history of humankind to conserve and protect works.
En3pY - Sebastian Zdrojewski
@rysiek Disney is well known for lobbying the US Congress about copyright extension. And it's not just about books or movies. The major music companies do pretty much the same. Their weapons are the #DMCA and ownership of platforms like #Spotify. The average costs of a copyright infringement lawsuit is around 400K USD, which is completely unaffordable, and a great part of copyrighted material is published via US based platforms. This system is perfectly built for massive corporations that are actively and effectively manipulating and exploiting a basic human right.
- just a thought.
Adrian Cochrane
@garuma @rysiek @yoshimitsu I'm not opposed to a short period of copyright (certainly less than a human lifetime, not sure on details).
I definitely believe in a concept of "truth in advertising" requiring correct attribution, upon which a concept of canonicity (which fans of e.g. Spiderman or Dr Who already need to keep straight) can be built.
Personally my biggest grievance is DRM, and revoking the laws which defines it should only harm those with the lawyers on hand to enforce it...
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yoshimitsu
@rysiek Copyright and patent laws need to die.
The world would be a better place without them.
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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
@rysiek The thing that gets me is all the claims that we can't relax copyright, not even after the creator's death, because it 'protects' creators.
When... there are so, so, so many cases of copyright laws actively or passively screwing creators over. Even more cases of creators being bullied or tricked into signing away the rights, or never really holding them to begin with.
And in all of these fights? The courts don't give a shit about creators. The law doesn't. Public outcry rarely goes anywhere either.
I went looking for examples and honestly it's worse than I even remembered.
Space Catitude 🚀
Earlier today, I saw someone complaining about "Public Domain Laws" [there is no such thing, of course -- PD is the default, copyright is a legally-mandated monopoly], "breathing life into out-dated colonialist attitudes."
Would not be NEARLY as much of a problem if copyright only lasted 20 years!
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
The "Genius Creator Creating Completely Original and Non-Derivative Piece of Art From Scratch" is the art history equivalent of Great Man Theory. 🤔
All creative work is derivative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY
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