Re:Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking
by zehaeva on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:03PM
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> Software can be protected by copyright.
You want software to be protected for the lifetime of the author + 70ish years? 95 years in case of corporate authorship?
The Beatles catalogue, released 60 years ago, won't pass into the public domain until 70 years _after_ the last Beatle dies. Maybe my grand kids will see that day.
Given that the law almost made the 8 note ostinato from Katy Perry's Dark Horse into a copyrightable bit of music I would weep if we tried to really apply copyright to software.
You want software to be protected for the lifetime of the author + 70ish years? 95 years in case of corporate authorship?
The Beatles catalogue, released 60 years ago, won't pass into the public domain until 70 years _after_ the last Beatle dies. Maybe my grand kids will see that day.
Given that the law almost made the 8 note ostinato from Katy Perry's Dark Horse into a copyrightable bit of music I would weep if we tried to really apply copyright to software.