Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing
by zaarn on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:16AM
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In germany, for a while, there was no copyright on books, so authors faced the same problem.
This was largely solved by selling high quality books as the competition only made cheap books. This seems to have largely worked until newspapers got angry that a small percentage of people read the news without paying.
I don't have a good answer to this. I would therefore suggest decreasing the duration of copyright to somewhere around 5-10 years to give the copyright holder time to sell the work with exclusive rights, after which the work enters public domain (like copyright was initially intended to work).