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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by matheusmoreira on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:27PM (#28516437)
Yeah. He'll sell his records, make his money. After a while he'll have to create more if he wants to earn more.

It totally won't enable over a hundred years of rent seeking for him, descendants who could inherit his property after he's dead and of course the monopolistic copyright giants.

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by LeifCarrotson on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:03PM (#28516848)
That's obviously facile. He's dead, and unable to make decisions anymore.

I, on the other hand, am alive and would definitely have decided to become a world-renowned operatic singer, if only copyright wasn't so short that I couldn't pass on the rights to my artistic creations to my children's children's children's children's children's children's children. I could pass it on to my children's children's children's children's children's children, but I worry about their kids. Copyright isn't sufficiently long enough for that so I decided to produce no art at all instead, and become an engineer to produce trade secrets that can last indefinitely.

We definitely need an extension to copyright to incentivize long-term planners like me to create more art.

/s

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by tankenmate on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:12PM (#28516937)
I think the OP's post was made in the form of "100% de-hydrated desert dessicated sarcasm".
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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by Chris2048 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:47AM (#28524722)
> trade secrets that can last indefinitely

and can also be invalidated immediately. AFAIK trade secret gets no formal protection outside secrecy.

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