Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
by jtolmar on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:02AM
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> Why have copyright at all?
You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent authors and sell their work before the author's version can get any word of mouth. (Where "sell" probably means "distribute with ads" since there's no copy protection.)
4-5 years of copy protection would prevent this, and that's on the very safe end.
Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
by teddyh on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:45AM
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You’re assuming that we still want the “sell-with-ads” model to be the model to make money from producing works. I’m not sure this is what we want; we now see what ad-optimized media looks like.
You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent authors and sell their work before the author's version can get any word of mouth. (Where "sell" probably means "distribute with ads" since there's no copy protection.)
4-5 years of copy protection would prevent this, and that's on the very safe end.