Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done

Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by jevoten on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:59PM (#29788913)

Ok, lets pretend IP never reverts to the public domain. Before you write the first word, pay a license to the heir of whoever invented written language. And spoken, for that matter. And invented paper, and the pen. Then to the heirs of all the folk tales and myths you'll inevitably be borrowing from, consciously or not, starting with the epic of Gilgamesh.

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Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by qwytw on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:32AM (#29792971)

But that's not how copyright works, you don't need to pay anything to the original author if you're merely borrowing their ideas even if the original work is not in the public domain. You're free to make a movie 'inspired' by Star Wars as long as you don't actually copy anything directly, use any character names etc.

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Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by jevoten on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:09AM (#29796349)

You're making a legal argument, about how things are, not how they should be. If we're talking about "how copyright works", 100 years ago it worked very differently from today.

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