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Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by hnbad on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:31AM (#29428514)
Or for a less radical approach:

Limit copyright for creative works to the author's lifetime. Dad wrote the next Lord of the Rings on his deathbed? Too bad, you better hope he sorted out a good publishing deal that'll survive him. Abolish copyright for software. Sorry, your ecommerce website isn't Hamlet.

Cap patents to a fixed number of years, say 10, and ban software patents. Also require that a patent filing actually provides enough information to be able to reproduce the work given all other publicly available information. Want to patent your AI that requires a secret training data set? Tough. Want to patent your crazy new dating algorithm? Better provide an example implementation in the public domain.

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Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by nicoburns on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:10AM (#29429574)
> you better hope he sorted out a good publishing deal that'll survive him

Presumably this wouldn't help if the copyright didn't survive him, as anybody else would also be able to publish the work.

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Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by hnbad on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:42AM (#29440024)
That's why I said "good publishing deal". Yeah, anyone can re-publish the work but the publisher you signed the deal with can't and it's in their interest to maximize sales.
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