Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W...
by benj111 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:27AM
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I quite like this scheme too.
One benefit you haven't mentioned. All in copyright works are centralised into one register so you can actually tell if something is copyrighted or not.
I'd go for an initially shorter period though. 10 years freely extendable for another 10 years? I suspect the majority of copyrighted works wouldn't even take up the extension. And allows people to do interesting things with that book that no one read that much sooner, for example.
One benefit you haven't mentioned. All in copyright works are centralised into one register so you can actually tell if something is copyrighted or not.
I'd go for an initially shorter period though. 10 years freely extendable for another 10 years? I suspect the majority of copyrighted works wouldn't even take up the extension. And allows people to do interesting things with that book that no one read that much sooner, for example.