Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022
by bryanrasmussen on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:14AM
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now as far as how I would improve copyright, part of one of the problems copyright faces is that in countries outside the U.S fair use is either a non-existent concept or it is much diluted. I think it would be nice to import the American concept of fair use to these other countries but it would be a hard go running into that Berne convention moral rights thing I noted earlier. But maybe doable.
For creators, some sort of unified treaty about copyright reversion. This would probably go over good in Berne convention aligned countries because follows moral rights philosophy.
One of the main problems with copyright is actually the DMCA, so fix the DMCA to not make it so easy for people to squash things.
finally people have a problem with the term limits of copyright. This is a hard thing to fix, basically I would think the copyright of works is a little bit of too long now - I would say 60 years or the life of the creator whichever is longer. For companies obviously has to be 60 years then. So someone writes a book at 20 and lives to be 85 they have 65 years, someone writes a book at 65 and dies at 67, the book remains in copyright 58 more years after death and their kids get taken care of if that book happens to be the best selling children's book of all time or something like that.
Characters created in one work etc. are copyrighted from the time of their first creation.
for creators as well, lighten or get rid of registration requirement in the U.S (which is required in order to sue for infringement and needs to be timely in order to get statutory damages) or course no European court has this, because Berne convention, so I think it would be nice to align things.
For creators, some sort of unified treaty about copyright reversion. This would probably go over good in Berne convention aligned countries because follows moral rights philosophy.
One of the main problems with copyright is actually the DMCA, so fix the DMCA to not make it so easy for people to squash things.
finally people have a problem with the term limits of copyright. This is a hard thing to fix, basically I would think the copyright of works is a little bit of too long now - I would say 60 years or the life of the creator whichever is longer. For companies obviously has to be 60 years then. So someone writes a book at 20 and lives to be 85 they have 65 years, someone writes a book at 65 and dies at 67, the book remains in copyright 58 more years after death and their kids get taken care of if that book happens to be the best selling children's book of all time or something like that.
Characters created in one work etc. are copyrighted from the time of their first creation.
for creators as well, lighten or get rid of registration requirement in the U.S (which is required in order to sue for infringement and needs to be timely in order to get statutory damages) or course no European court has this, because Berne convention, so I think it would be nice to align things.