How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Catalogue

Re:How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Ca... by bloomingfractal on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:40PM (#10836996)

For me that kind of story gives extra justification to abolish copyrights in the way they currently are. Our culture is being held hostage by all these games and the real artists get paid very little.

Meanwhile, we technologists should just torrent stuff to make a point and continue to innovate with systems that make copyright obsolete.

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Re:How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Ca... by realityking on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:34PM (#10839267)

Assuming you're a developer or designer, why don't you start by telling your employer you're morally opposed to copyright and would like to see all fruits of your labor to be in the public domain.

Please report back how it went.

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Re:How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Ca... by Consultant32452 on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:01PM (#10840176)

That's an interesting one. Let's say copyright was cut down to maybe 10 years. How much software that's running the world right now would be out of copyright protection? I suspect a significant percentage of the fundamentally important code for our economy is at least 10 years old.

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