Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done
by newjersey on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:54PM
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Imagine though a world where copyright is at most twenty years under special cases, ten years by default...
» Nobody is going to pay for the rights to the Hitman video game franchise and create The Professional. Because if you mutate the story that much you’re legally in the clear.
We would see new movies using footage from existing twenty year old movies maybe even a different cut of not so old movies.
I think age of five years for patents and twenty years for copyright is the maximum I can support.
Frozen is a long way from The Snow Queen. A queen had powers over ice there where trolls and someone was saved by a kiss, but in the Snow Queen it was a guy saved by the kiss and the trolls where evil etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone at Disney read it, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Peter Pan, Little Mermaid, etc adaptations at least share some basic elements of the story though their at most fanfics and really that’s all I am advocating.
Nobody is going to pay for the rights to the Hitman video game franchise and create The Professional. Because if you mutate the story that much you’re legally in the clear.