Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022
by jedberg on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:02PM
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That's a beautiful utopia, but sadly I don't think it would fly in today's world. Also, short copyrights serve a useful purpose of encouraging invention. It's the length of time that's the problem, not that it exists.
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Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022
by chrismcb on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:39PM
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Copyrights don't serve much of a purpose for inventions. Patents on the other hand...
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022
by d110af5ccf on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:54AM
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Actually they prevent a competitor blatantly ripping off entire chunks of your work verbatim. This encourages spending time on R&D that you otherwise wouldn't be able to justify because "our competitor will just copy-paste it".
You don't need anything remotely like life of the author plus an additional half of a lifetime to realize that protection though.