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Copyright and patent laws need to die.
They don’t need to die, they need to go back to what they used to be. The first copyright law was called the Statute of Anne and it covered a work for 14 years.
That’s a totally reasonable amount of time for an author/publisher to make their money. And it’s reasonable for creators to want to get paid for their work.
And then it should be public domain.
No, they need to die.
If you can’t protect your own ideas, you shouldn’t get to rely on the government to do it for you.
How are you proposing that people protect their own ideas?
Say you write a book. You self-publish. A big publisher CTRL-C/CTRL-Vs your book and publishes it themselves with their access to distribution networks and advertising budgets. Now you sell 0 copies of your book while the publishing house makes millions.
What should you have done differently?
Copyright laws were invented to protect creative people against publishing monopolies.
How is the publisher making money if everyone can copy and redistribute it for free themselves?
You didn’t answer my questions
To answer yours, beyond what i already laid out in the question itself, the original Night Of The Living Dead has been out of copyright for decades, and yet corporations still make money off it.
People can literally do that right now and yet the music, book, etc. industries still exist
Brain dead take
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
In case you wanted to know what was lost.
I’m kind of amazed that only that and the 78’s archive was lost. At least there’s Project Gutenberg et al to help with the books, and meanwhile the IA does still archive a vast load of video material, software, and no doubt, other stuff.
I did, thanks.
How many of them are not backed up somewhere else?
I’m sure Anna has an archive or something
Most of them are still “on” the Internet Archive.
What criteria decided those books? It must be a relatively small number of all books
Is that Steve Wozniak holding one of those zeroes?
Not unless he became Asian. You can click on the picture in the article to make it full screen. Not Woz.
Alright, but even full-size it does look a bit like him.
