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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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