Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ...
by toomuchtodo on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:49AM
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This is just extending the rent seeking. If the work is so valuable the owner can continue to extend their copyright, the public should receive that value after the 14 years (by which point, the owner has been made whole through collecting rents for those 14 years) versus the owner ratcheting up the cost to pay to maintain the copyright monopoly on the work in question.
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ...
by ncallaway on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:57AM
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Eh, if the price rises enough year over year, and you dump that funding into the National Institute for the Arts, or other programs to provide grants and funding to low-income artists, I could see it being a potentially useful tool to spread the wealth around from very commercially successful works.
I'm not necessarily supporting it, but I could see some positive outcomes from the approaches.